This research examines one aspect of leader behavior and a personality characteristic of the subordinate, i.e. authoritarianism and how they relate to the attitudes and performance of the subordinate. (Author)

Data processing problems encountered in a comparative study of teacher roles are discussed. (DB)

Discussion of digital audio in computer-based training (CBT) focuses on a study at the University of Central Florida that was conducted to determine whether the addition of audio to CBT had positive effects on undergraduates' cognitive achievement levels and to analyze its effect on time required to complete a lesson. (14 references) (LRW)

The present research effort was directed toward exploration of the formulation of teachers' biases. (Author)

A sixty-four-item parent-report Games Inventory was constructed to measure play patterns in normal and gender-deviant boys. (Editor)

Describes the design and operation of two macros written in the programming language of Microsoft's EXCEL for educational research applications. The first macro determines the frequency of responses to a Likert-type questionnaire or multiple-choice test; the second performs a one-way analysis of variance test. (Author/LRW)

This study addresses itself to a determinant of the MUM effect - namely communicator mood, and, as well, the interaction between communicator and recipient. (Author/RK)

This study extended previous research based on an aversive consequences interpretation of counterattitudinal advocacy effects by hypothesizing that persons who prepare counterattitudinal messages for an ostensibly familiar audience will report greater attitude change than persons who prepare messages for an unfamiliar audience. (Editor)

The nature of the relationship between a teacher's knowledge of certain principles of adult teaching, his application of those principles in classroom practice, and the resultant level of satisfaction reported by his adult students was studied. Agroup of 1,596 adults in 100 university classes were the subjects. A theoretical framework adapted from…

This study is a followup of a sample of 222 teachers with two years experience. Their self-ratings of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with teaching and the rating of their head teachers were measured on a scale based on the critical incident technique'. (Author/RK)

A questionnaire is designed to allow assessment of a simple additive value function for testing respondent preferences for different types of information used in evaluating police services. Responses are analyzed to determine what types of information different stakeholder groups consider useful. (Author/LMO)

Reports results of two-phase study of size and composition of U.S. online database production organizations. Comparison of 1982 and 1984 data for online database producers to determine number of personnel employed in intellectual production of databases permitted identification of employment trends, which forms focus of discussion. (6 references)…

This second in a series of articles on the effectiveness of educational technologies in higher education focuses on a study of four-year higher education institutions in Ohio. This study investigated differences between the media directors' perceptions of the importance of educational technology services and their budget commitment to those…

A study was conducted to develop some understanding of how social experience might be related to public expectations of rights to privacy. A telephone questionnaire was developed which sought information about respondent knowledge, attitudes, and behavior regarding privacy and personal information. A national survey of adults over the age of 18…