This study focuses on aspects of the Changing Academic Profession survey of 2007-08 that describe the place of faculty in their institutions. The authors examine the following aspects of institutional life: (1) the faculty role in institutional governance; (2) who evaluates their teaching and research; (3) the locus of their loyalties as between…

The influence of varying teaching experience on the evaluation and marking of essays is assessed in a field experiment where teachers from three different school types were asked to mark the same set of compositions written by students in the Norwegian youth school population. (Author)