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Sandler, Bernice R. – 1984
Guidelines are presented to help foundations and others ensure that the activities they fund treat women and girls fairly and address issues concerning women. Formal impact statements can help foundations examine their grant programs by asking a series of questions about: applicants' commitment to ending discrimination; the access of women and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Administrators, Data Collection
Montoya, Ricardo Anzaldua, Ed.; And Others – 1984
The fourth annual research inventory describes 728 Mexican-related research projects being conducted in 1984 or to begin in 1985 in 14 countries. Data come from questionnaires sent during 1984 to more than 1,800 individual researchers and 650 institutions around the world. Each project description provides names and addresses of principal and…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Educational Research
Williams, David; Loertscher, Kyleen – 1986
A case study of a teacher as a naturalistic inquirer is presented. A class in naturalistic inquiry methods was offered to practicing teachers and other graduate students during a 15-week semester. During the first two or three weeks, students read extensively about qualitative methods and identified a possible site to conduct a study. The…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, College Curriculum
Sawada, Daiyo; Pothier, Yvonne – 1986
A new framework for designing qualitative studies is described to optimize the emergence, representation and presentation of insights. The framework, called Reflection Methodology, is presented as a "Conversational Paradigm" that includes four components--interviewer (researcher as participant); child, task situation, and observing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Division
Radnor, Michael, Ed.; And Others – 1977
The first two papers in this collection introduce both the Research and Development Exchange (RDx) itself and the subsequent contracted papers in this and a companion volume. The first paper discusses the general problems toward which the RDx effort is directed, understandings and assumptions affecting the design of the work, principles guiding…
Descriptors: Administrators, Change Strategies, Diffusion, Educational Innovation
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Commission on Human Resources. – 1979
Recent and anticipated declines in openings for new science and engineering faculty are examined, along with recommendations for national policies to counteract this. It is suggested that the decline stems from two key sources: an absence of growth in total faculty size, and low rates of retirement among present tenured faculty. The extent of the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Opportunities, College Faculty, Doctoral Degrees
MILLIKAN, NANCY H. – 1967
THIS STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES THAT MAY EXIST FOR RESEARCH PREPARATION IN GRADUATE INSTITUTIONS, TO EXAMINE THE INSTITUTIONAL AND TRAINING ARRANGEMENTS THAT MAY BE RELATED TO OUTPUT OF RESEARCHERS, AND TO INVESTIGATE THE POTENTIAL COMMITMENT OF RECENT DOCTORAL RECIPIENTS TO EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH. DATA FOR THE STUDY CAME FROM…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Career Choice, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Research
Wanner, Richard A.; And Others – 1980
A model incorporating both academic and nonacademic factors as determinants of productivity was tested with samples of physical and biological scientists, social scientists, and humanists taken from the 1972-73 American Council on Education survey of faculty at U.S. institutions of higher learning. Considerable variation was found in the process…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biological Sciences, Books, College Faculty
Trow, Martin – 1977
Several matters are considered as they relate to the possibility of establishing a research community on higher education in Sweden: the characteristics of such a community and its importance to the future of education; the organization of applied research in higher education, including statistical services, special studies, and policy analysis;…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Bibliographies, Educational Policy, Financial Support
St. John, Edward P. – 1979
The status of instruction/research employees in Missouri state-supported higher education institutions during 1978-79 was examined by HEGIS discipline divisions. The employees' status was examined with respect to numbers of full-time and part-time employees, percentage part-time, and percentage with tenure. The implications of this information for…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Departments
National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1975
Ten consultants were employed by the National Institute of Education (NIE) to examine the state of educational research and development (R&D) with specific reference to the regional laboratories and the R&D centers established in the late 1960's. By confering with NIE officials, surveying the directors of regional laboratories and R&D…
Descriptors: Consultants, Educational Development, Educational Researchers, Federal Programs
Eisenbud, Robert E., Comp. – 1969
Addressed to high school and college students interested in working with the mentally retarded, the booklet describes opportunities in the field. Careers considered include 16 in health and health related services, four in education, seven in social and rehabilitative services, and six in administration and coordination of services. Research…
Descriptors: Administrators, Career Opportunities, Child Care Occupations, Dental Hygienists
Popham, W. James – 1969
This report describes and evaluates a training program for educational researchers conducted prior to and following the 1969 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. The report's description of each of the program's 12 specific training sessions, which served a total of 542 educational researchers, includes the following…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Comparative Analysis, Computer Science, Educational Research
Pedersen, Eigil D.; And Others – 1971
These two volumes contain a complete report on an inventory of the state of educational research in Quebec, as surveyed in 1968-1969. Four different populations--deans, professors of education, graduate students in education, and educational researchers other than faculties of education--were studied, using a particular instrument designed for the…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Age Differences, College Faculty, Data Collection
Burton, Dwight L., Ed. – 1963
Thirteen addresses from the 1963 Conference on English Education deal with problems faced by educators responsible for preparing prospective teachers of English. A brief introduction in which Dwight L. Burton affirms that teacher education is a sound blend of liberal arts and professional education precedes Robert C. Pooley's discussion of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, English Curriculum
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