Studied the role of elementary and middle school principals (N=71) in reading instruction. Used information from questionnaires to formulate two composite principals (one for larger school districts and one for smaller districts). Descriptions indicated that principals were well prepared to supervise and advise reading teachers. (RC)

Presents results from a study that examined the characteristics of young people in Russia related to their self-determination and socialization. Uses data from a questionnaire survey of college and university students, school students, military school trainees, white-collar workers, and others from the ages of sixteen to twenty-three (84.7 percent…

Uses a multidimensional approach to explore occupational gender type for 100 occupational titles. Occupational images were primarily structured on two orthogonal dimensions: prestige and gender type. Findings from a sample of 125 undergraduates support the multidimensional approach. Also, even though the prestige and gender-type factors were…

Two investigations were conducted to examine whether incentives increased survey returns from 297 and 100, respectively, former teacher education students; and idiographic characteristics, incentives, and multiple mailings influenced respondent perceptions. Establishing a communication network increased the number of responses; incentives and…

A Likert style questionnaire consisting of 60 adjectives was administered to 451 undergraduates from Beijing, Guangzhou, Taipei, and Hong Kong. Results show the core characteristics of creativity that were identical in all the samples are originality, innovativeness, thinking and observation skills, flexibility, willingness to try, self…

This Canadian study reports on the experiences of parents whose children use cochlear implants and on their perspectives prior to and following the transition to Auditory-Verbal therapy. A qualitative case study design, framed in social-ecological theory, guided this research. Data collection procedures included a family information questionnaire,…

The correlations of scores of the Campbell-Holland Interest Scale for American and New Zealand psychology students were compared, and the factor structure was shown to be similar in the two samples. (Author)

In this study of "Occupational Survey of Refrigeration Technicians" in which the "Task Inventory Questionnaires" have been developed, we aim at determining the vocational psychomotor competencies (skills) of refrigeration technicians for effectively carrying out the occupational duties in labor-life. In the first phase of the…

Two studies explored mothers' beliefs about the characteristics of effective mothers of preschool-aged children. Study One consisted of interviews of 50 mothers which were designed to generate a pool of characteristics associated with good mothering. Of the 33 characteristics generated, those most frequently mentioned were being loving, patient,…

IN A RESURVEY OF 1957 WOMEN COLLEGE GRADUATES, QUESTIONNAIRES RETURNED BY 84 PERCENT OF THE 5,846 CONTACTED IN 1964 PROVIDED INFORMATION ABOUT THE INTERRELATED INFLUENCES ON COLLEGE WOMEN OF THEIR UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION, POSTGRADUATE SPECIALIZATIONS, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, AND WORK CAREERS. ALMOST THREE-FOURTHS OF THE GRADUATES SURVEYED…

THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE MILITARY SERVICES OFFERED A POTENTIAL SOURCE FOR VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL TEACHERS. MILITARY OFFICIALS DESIGNATED ONE ARMY, ONE NAVY, AND ONE AIR FORCE BASE WHICH REPRESENTED A TYPICAL SEPARATION CENTER FOR EACH PARTICULAR SERVICE. A QUESTIONNAIRE, ADMINISTERED BY DESIGNATED BASE…

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL OCCUPATIONAL VARIABLES OF LAW AND SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS WERE IDENTIFIED AND MEASURED. THE JOB ANALYSIS AND INTEREST MEASUREMENT (JAIM), A SELF-DESCRIPTION INVENTORY DEVELOPED FROM STUDIES OF MATURE WORKERS, WAS GIVEN TO 495 FIRST OR SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT FIVE SCHOOLS OF SOCIAL WORK AND 244 FIRST YEAR OR GRADUATE LAW…

To investigate present operating relationships and make suggestions for improving these relationships among county extension workers and vocational agricultural teachers, an hypothesis was made that county extension agents have more positive attitudes than teachers toward cooperation. A questionnaire, evaluated in the preparation by state…

One of the youngest of the professions belonging to higher education is institutional research. But younger still has been the incursion of institutional research onto the campuses of predominantly black institutions. This group of papers attempts to lend a truer perspective to the burgeoning institutional research function at predominantly black…

A model of career commitment in the young adult (primarily college) years was developed from a survey of the literature, from interviews with 135 Army ROTC cadets and officers, and from survey questionnaires filled out by nationwide samples of 1089 high school seniors, 1633 college students (754 in ROTC, 879 not in ROTC), and 634 ROTC-graduate…