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Maryland Council for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1975
A working group, composed of both faculty and administration representatives from the State Board for Community Colleges and the community colleges, the Board of Trustees for State Colleges, the University of Maryland, and the private institutions, met together over a period of several months to develop the design of the study and the data…
Descriptors: Class Size, College Credits, College Faculty, Higher Education
Massachusetts State Coll. System, Boston. – 1975
The two agreements included in this document are in effect until June 30, 1976 and June 30, 1977, respectively. Articles cover: recognition and definitions, relationship between the board and the association, use of college facilities, faculty fringe benefits, statement on academic freedom, responsibilities of department chairmen, participation in…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, Contracts, Decision Making
Shostak, Robert – 1969
The purpose of this study was to express in procedural terms one approach in the development of a technique to discover the rating strategies of essay graders. Sets of rater scores obtained from a reading of 256 high school essays by 32 experienced English teachers were submitted to a factor analysis which yielded four meaningful rater clusters.…
Descriptors: Age, Evaluation, Factor Analysis, Grading
Barrett, Clyde Junior – 1970
The major objective of this study was to determine the effect on academic performance of the 12th year English background of students in college freshman composition. Student survey forms were given to 415 students enrolled in their first college English course in order to assess their past writing experiences, and questionnaires were sent to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Assignments, College Freshmen, College Instruction
Leslie, Larry L.; Creasy, James – 1974
This study was designed to collect data concerning the characteristics of the higher education faculty of Pennsylvania. A population of 21,228 teaching faculty in 118 colleges and universities in Pennsylvania were surveyed by means of college catalogs, records of the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission, and a mail questionnaire. The catalogs…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Degrees (Academic), Higher Education
Lombardi, John – 1974
Various aspects of faculty workload are reviewed, with emphasis on definitions of workload and on major problems in developing workload formulas. Attention is also given to the erosion of parietal policies, the quality versus quantity issue, and the effect of collective bargaining on workloads. For most instructors, the important factors are the…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness
Bergen Community Coll., Paramus, NJ. – 1973
This agreement between the Bergen Community College Faculty Association and the Bergen Community College Board of Trustees covers the period of July 1, 1973 to June 30, 1976. Articles of the agreement cover definition of bargaining unit; understandings relative to the agreement; negotiations; Board rights and responsibilities; Association rights…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Community Colleges, Contracts, Faculty Promotion

Harris, William M.
Nomography, a branch of applied mathematics, deals with the graphical solution or nomograph of certain types of equations. This paper presents an example of nomography that has proven useful in calculating average weekly student contact hours (WSCH) per instructor, and that allows for rapid assessment of the maximum and minimum number of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Planning, Faculty Workload, Graphs
Noel, Wright – Agricultural Education, 1978
Both school year and summer activities of Oregon vocational agriculture teachers were identified and the number of working hours spent on each activity was tabulated. The study indicated that over half the teachers' professional work time was spent in activities outside the classroom, including project supervision, placement development, and work…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Agricultural Education, Noninstructional Responsibility, Organization
Gregg, Ted – Agricultural Education, 1978
Suggestions for helping agricultural instructors organize and plan their activities are presented by identifying and prioritizing these activities in the following order: of equal importance are classroom instruction, supervised occupational experience, and Future Farmers of America (FFA) activities; second in priority is office management; and…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Agricultural Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Noninstructional Responsibility

Avi-Itzhak, Tamar; Kremer, Lya – Educational Research Quarterly, 1986
This study investigated the attitudes of faculty members toward the reliability and validity of student ratings and its uses for administrative purposes, i.e., promotion and tenure considerations. The effects of background and organizational variables were also researched. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, Higher Education, Promotion (Occupational), Rating Scales
Corwin, John K.; Sandiford, Janice R. – VocEd, 1984
This article reports the results of a national survey of teachers' concerns, published in the August 1983 issue of Voc Ed. In this survey, vocational teachers were asked to speak their minds on what the priorities of vocational education ought to be. (SSH)
Descriptors: Feedback, National Surveys, Student Teacher Relationship, Teacher Attitudes
Schibik, Timothy; Harrington, Charles – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2004
One important factor neglected in the literature involves an investigation into whether the increased utilization of part-time faculty impacts student retention. Are part-time faculty, who are employed primarily to teach introductory courses, having an adverse affect on student retention? Are universities recognizing and studying the potential…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Academic Achievement, School Holding Power, Part Time Faculty
Shulman, Carol Herrnstadt – AGB Reports, 1981
Effective use of faculty is an important consideration in the need for accountability as institutions must maintain institutional quality while increasing operational efficiency. Collective bargaining and new federal reporting requirements for faculty necessitate a continuing focus on workload issues. (MLW)
Descriptors: Accountability, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Cost Effectiveness

Dillon, Roy D. – Journal of the American Association of Teacher Educators in Agriculture, 1977
Data from a 1-year survey of 40 vocational agriculture teachers in Nebraska are presented in narrative analyses and in six tables showing man hours worked: (1) By 27 duty categories, (2) based on student enrollment in vocational agriculture programs, (3) based on number of students in FFA, (4) according to conduct of young farmer classes, (5)…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Educational Research, Factor Analysis, Noninstructional Responsibility