The AAUP, in publishing salary and compensation averages each year for individual institutions and for categories of institutions, should alert readers to the shortcomings of the data for various purposes, and especially for comparisons between institutions and between categories of institutions and sexes on a nationwide basis. (LBH)

The number of women in educational administration is declining, despite official efforts to end sex discrimination. Women are hampered on the way to obtaining an adequate education, finding roadblocks from sex bias in elementary readers to discrimination in graduate programs; are considered responsible for home and children even when working full…

This report provides an update on the nature and extent of sexual harassment at the three Department of Defense (DOD) service academies. It is based on a stratified random survey of 430 Military Academy cadets, 470 Naval Academy midshipmen, and 428 Air Force Academy cadets, which oversampled women to ensure that a statistically significant number…

Investigates administrative training and leadership practices used by communication department chairpersons. Examines the number of women chairpersons, differences in administrative training activities for men as compared to women chairpersons, and whether leadership practices differ according to length of term, gender, institution size,…

A nationwide survey of over 3,000 grade 11 students (approximately equal numbers of males and females) representing major urban areas in all ten provinces was undertaken to obtain baseline data on access to and usage of computers in each of three categories--recreational, nonrecreational home usage, and school--and to test a "manifold…

Describes a survey that was conducted to identify the range of software programs in use in a sample of higher education institutions, examine usage patterns, and identify those programs reported as most useful to students, including foreign students. Gender differences and perceptions of Macintosh versus IBM hardware are also considered. (LRW)

This study compared how alcohol effect expectancies and reaction expectancies related to one another and to male and female college students' drinking behavior. Analyses indicated that different types and patterns of expectancies were gender specific. Discusses results in terms of the nature of gender/expectancy/drinking relationships. (RJM)

A study was undertaken to investigate the expectations college professors have of either their doctoral or career mentors, especially the differences in expectations held by male and female professors. From the literature, a list of 27 common expectations was developed into a questionnaire. Full-time tenure-track faculty at a college and a…

This publication provides a comprehensive interpretation of the second mathematics assessment completed during the 1977-78 school year by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The NAEP results suggest strong implications for the mathematics curriculum of the 1980's that mathematics educators need to evaluate with care. The…

Electronic Learning's survey of computer coordinators at building and district levels reveals that majority consider role as coordinator to be part-time; most annual budgets for computing are at least $8,000; financial aspects are dealt with increasingly at district levels; and men outnumber women at district level but not in schools. (MBR)

Information on employees in Connecticut's 22 public institutions of higher education in fall 1983 is presented, along with comparative data for 1979 and 1981 employment patterns. Employment by the seven Equal Employment Opportunity Commission occupational categories is also analyzed. A separate section provides information on faculty employment,…

Information on employees in Connecticut's 22 public institutions of higher education in fall 1981 is presented. Comparisons are made to employment patterns as of fall 1979. Findings include the following: full-time employment in Connecticut public institutions was down 1.4 percent in fall 1981 from 2 years earlier; the number of full-time minority…

A four-year examination of the freshman class entering Shippensburg State College in 1970 was made to chart the impact of college on a group of students. Almost 90 percent of the freshman class was initially administered the survey during the pre-school Freshman Orientation Program. A sophomore year retest was given to 75 percent of the sample…

Reviews the results and implications of the 1985 National Survey of Instructional Uses of School Computers, a survey of elementary and secondary schools which examined teacher use as well as student use. Differences in student use are reported according to grade level, subject, ability level, and gender. (LRW)

The attitudes of college freshmen toward older people were assessed in a 1979 study using the Situational Attitude Scale-Age. The same measure was used again in 1988 on a similar sample of freshmen. The combined samples consisted of 412 students, 51% female and 49% male. Results were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance at the .05…