This paper explores the potential of feature film to encourage more inclusive, participatory and open learning in the area of employment relations. Evaluations of student responses in a single postgraduate course over a five-year period revealed how feature film could encourage participatory learning processes in which students reexamined their…

The Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will establish technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the survey design and implementation processes of PIAAC yield high-quality and internationally comparable data. This document provides a revised version of the technical standards and guidelines originally…

The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) has been planned as an ongoing program of assessment. The first cycle of the assessment has involved two "rounds." The first round, which is covered by this report, took place over the period of January 2008-October 2013. The main features of the first cycle of…

Human resources are recognised as being key to the creation, commercialisation and diffusion of innovation. Among them, doctorate holders are not only the most qualified in terms of educational attainment, but also those who are specifically trained to conduct research. Not much is known however about their career and mobility patterns on the…

Reports on a poll assessing the status of teenagers in the United States, including such findings as the fact that 22 percent of teenagers live in poverty and that more than one million teenagers become pregnant each year. (DF)

Discusses the successful educational media course in library instruction at Miami University, Ohio, and presents the results of a survey of the educational background and previous library instruction of students taking the course. A copy of the questionnaire is appended. (RBF)

A survey designed to evaluate the importance of some components of cultural transmission on a variety of traits showed that religion and politics are mostly determined in the family, a mode of transmission which guarantees high evolutionary stability and maintenance of high variation between and within groups. (Author/JN)

The need for competence in Italian is not met by the curriculum of "general education" schools; at the adult level the situation is better. Statistics are given. Besides this objective indication of demand, a need is revealed by a questionnaire, administered to university beginners in various cities. (IFS/WGA)

Questionnaires were distributed to 1,100 behavioral, biological, physical and social scientists at a major research university. Those surveyed said they suspected a colleague of falsifying data and 54% of them had failed to check out the suspicions or to take action to remedy the situation. (MLW)

Reports on recent survey of 266 faculty views on undergraduate information skills in university setting, which covered evaluation of students' library skills; use of card catalog, bibliographies, and reference tools; assignments requiring student use of library resources; faculty explanation of literature tools in field; and librarian role in…

The responses to questions of class size, degree requirements, starting salaries, and teaching load from 156 academic institutions involved in foreign language teaching are revealed. These may be benchmarks for evaluating and improving programs nationwide. (PMJ)

When survey data are analyzed by computer, a codebook is necessary to show how raw scores are translated to computer-usable form. When data are tabulated by hand, the need for a codebook depends upon the number of respondents, the number and complexity of items, and the types of statistical manipulations required. During the process of coding,…

Deferred maintenance has been known to be a costly and growing issue on America's campuses. A new survey sent to 750 plant administrators is discussed. The cost of catching up and keeping up is more than most institutions can afford. (MLW)

This report on basic skills training at Norfolk State University (Virginia) profiles current activities and ascertains the perceptions of the faculty in order to develop general guidelines that might be useful for continued planning. Data from 107 questionnaires completed by Norfolk faculty show that they regard basic skills as critical for…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Science Resources Services designs and conducts surveys related to, and supports other data collection activities dealing with, science resources. The data from these surveys and data collection efforts are used by NSF and others to analyze various research and development (R&D) funding and…