A study was conducted to determine the relationship between selected preparation factors and the existence of outstanding leadership skills among community college presidents. Surveys were sent to all 147 presidents of public, two-year institutions in the Upper Midwest United States, with 85% (n=125) responding. A peer rating method was used to…

In 1996, Florida's Miami-Dade Community College conducted a study to examine the college preparatory completion rates of first-time degree-seeking students based on their verbal and mathematics entry-level placement scores. Results include the following: (1) fewer than 30% of students scoring at the lowest level on the mathematics placement test…

The effects of parental wealth and human capital on the probability of an individual entering self-employment and the relationship between gender and propensity toward self-employment were examined through an analysis of data from the four original cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) of Labor Market Experience. The data sets…

A study was undertaken to determine aspects of gender-related differences in mathematics achievement among 10th graders (n=253). More specifically, the following aspects were assessed: (1) gender-related differences and similarities on specific process-, content-, and micro-component aspects; (2) stability of the patterns of differences and…

This report presents supplementary findings for research on reading achievement differences among minority and white students in a desegregating school district, Cleveland, Ohio. The report focuses on elementary school students, and the findings parallel those of a previous report on secondary school students. Information presented includes: (1)…

The impact of faculty unionization on faculty compensation, research contract revenues, student tuition and fees, and other financial considerations are examined in this report. The study uses multiple regression models to analyze the net impact of collective bargaining on a sample of over 100 union and nonunion institutions. Faculty compensation…

In 1976, the Association of American Medical Colleges developed a map-like model to describe the global picture of the U.S. medical school similarities with respect to two loosely defined concepts: an institutional emphasis on research and an emphasis on clinical and graduate medical training. This study is an attempt to replicate the results of…

Students entering the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as freshmen in 1967-72 were followed for approximately six years after their initial enrollment to determine the number who received their bachelor's degrees from the institution. For all six freshmen classes combined, 49.9 percent received their degrees within four years, 64.8…

The paper compares educational and occupational aspirations and expectations of 500 black and white students from a San Antonio college. Previous research had produced conflicting theories of social class and race as determinants of expectations. This study employed a self-administered questionnaire which included the Occupational Aspiration Scale…

Graduate and professional schools usually base their admissions decisions on a combination of test scores and on an overall index of undergraduate achievement such as cumulative grade-point average or rank-in-class. The present study sought to investigate whether considering more specific indices of undergraduate performance, through a detailed…

The purpose of the study was to develop a linear programming model to be used for prediction, test the accuracy of the predictions, and compare the accuracy with that produced by curvilinear multiple regression analysis. (Author)

Admissions interview data and college academic credentials of five classes of University of Missouri-Columbia medical students were evaluated. Students judged by admissions interviewers to have high levels of maturity, nonacademic achievement, motivation, or rapport were two to three times as likely to receive outstanding internship…

Addresses the implicit assumption that instructional media represent meaningful experimental variables independent of instructional content or strategy. Results of computer-based instruction (CBI) studies (both well-designed and flawed) and meta-analyses are reviewed to support the authors' position that this assumption is invalid, and new…

Describes findings from a study of 20 school superintendents, their background characteristics, and the elements in organizational structures around them related to their success in becoming superintendents. The purpose was to determine predictors of access to superintendency, particularly access for women. Some data reveal that discriminatory…

Racial differences in the effects of intellectual and nonintellectual student characteristics and faculty attitudes and behaviors that significantly predict students' college performance are examined. Significant differences between black and white students' college performance and the predictors are discovered. (Author/MLW)