The booklet offers step-by-step instructions for the high school student on how to prepare for entry into the world of work. Basic job entry requirements, personal data needed, do's and don'ts, and typical forms encountered are presented in workbook form. It deals with the following 12 areas: general employment information, school records,…

The ranking of university geography departments based on hiring transactions is compared to the ranking of Indian village castes based on food transactions. Fifty-one geography departments were examined for the period 1960-1974 when 326 hiring transactions occurred. A study of caste ranking in a north Indian village by McKim Marriott and existing…

This book is concerned with the objectives of teacher evaluation, the materials and tools of evaluation, and the utilization of evaluation outcomes. The principal's attitude toward and his vital role in the evaluation process is discussed, and one chapter contains the approach for the performance evaluation of administrators. A related document is…

Data are presented from an annual survey of law school libraries, including salary ranges and fringe benefits of head librarians and professional staff. Data for each institution: collection size and content; staffing; hours; budgets for compensation and library materials; facilities, students, and faculty. Available from Am. Assoc. Law Libraries,…

A study at one public university investigated the annualized rate of salary/wage increase of employees from the time of hiring until July 1992. It examined promotion patterns, equity adjustments, employee degree acquisition, and certification of clerical workers. The study underscored the wide variation in earnings growth rates due in large part…

Prepared to support the self-study and strategic planning processes at Los Medanos College (LMC), in Pittsburgh, California, this fact book offers information about LMC's students, staff, programs, services, facilities, and expenditures. The first section focuses on the student population, including a trend analysis and longitudinal data on…

The annual performance report of the Austin Independent School District (AISD) for the 1986-87 school year contains the information required by the State Board of Education reconfigured into district-level and campus-level (individual school) information. Data include: the Superintendent's Report for 1986-87, dropout rates, class size above…

This report presents statistical data about the San Antonio (Texas) Independent School District for the 1983-1984 school year. Trends for five or ten year groupings of past years are also presented. The report consolidates both district and individual school information from regular reports by the different district departments. The data is…

This sixth version of "A Manual for Manpower Accounting in Higher Education" is the product of a six-year joint effort by NCES and NCHEMS. Data on manpower resources within an institution reflects the nature, amount, and use of the asset or resource that its personnel represent. Conventional personnel data, by contrast, typically consist only of…

THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO DEVISE AND TEST SYSTEMS OF MEASURING AND REPORTING ACTIVITIES IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES SO THAT SUCH INSTITUTIONS COULD MAINTAIN RECORDS ADEQUATE BOTH FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSES AND FOR REPORTING TO INTERESTED AGENCIES. DATA CONCERNING MANPOWER, STUDENTS, FACILITIES, AND FINANCES COVER ALL FIELDS OF UNIVERSITY ACTIVITY…

A STUDY OF EXTENSION COURSE PROGRAMS DESIGNED FOR PARTICIPANTS WHO CANNOT ATTEND REGULAR INSTRUCTIONAL CLASSES ON CAMPUS COMPARED MEMBER INSTITUTIONS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ACCREDITATION OF TEACHER EDUCATION (NCATE) AND INSTITUTIONS ACCREDITED BY THE REGIONAL ACCREDITING ASSOCIATIONS (NON-NCATE). THE PARTICIPANT POPULATION WAS INSERVICE…

Data collected in Fall 1980 were analyzed to determine the academic background, tenure, sex, age, and average salaries of the full-time professional staff employed by six Hawaii community colleges. Five personnel categories were investigated: (1) institutional support, including professional staff in the provost's office, business affairs…

Concern is growing over the problems of freedom of information, individual right to privacy, and automated recordkeeping systems. As a guide to policy considerations for overview and for detail, this extensive structured bibliography of privacy and disclosure literature adopts a topical scheme, dividing the subject first into governmental and…

An automated record-keeping system for publicly supported day care centers, developed by the South Carolina Office of Child Development (OCD), is described here. This OCD Information System evolved around the need for accurate and timely data pertaining to publicly funded day care centers. Allowance was made for possible subsequent inclusion of…

The purpose of the study was to examine existing information on the level of quality of medical care delivered by foreign medical graduates (FMGs), as part of a broader consideration of policies relating to FMGs and health care delivery in the United States. Quality of care is considered to comprise both technical care and the "art of…