This article attempted to determine the opinions of experienced teachers enrolled in selected courses at East Texas State University regarding the objectives of American education. (Author/RK)

Article presented a list of questions designed to learn from the school trustee how effective his role in developing educational objectives is. (RK)

The present study provides evidence that there are differences in judged desirability between mentioning hygiene factors and talking about motivators. (Author)

575 adults drawn from both rural and urban areas completed a questionnaire designed and used originally by Flugel in 1947 to see how far lay opinions on intelligence reflect views held by professional psychologists and how far lay responses now differ from those reported by Flugel. (Editor)

The randomized response model described in this study works against the types of bias which make faculty evaluation surveys unreliable. (Authors/CB)

In a study of teacher role, the collection of data from a sample of teachers in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand is described, and the techniques used to analyze the data are discussed. (DB)

This research note examines respondent-nonrespondent bias in a statewide population survey. The findings indicate general support for using master lists in the selection of respondents for participation in a large mail questionnaire survey. Two papers follow which react to this information. (Author/CT)

The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) is a research program that tracks young people as they move from school into further study, work and other destinations. It uses large, nationally representative samples of young people to collect information about education and training, work, and social development. It includes surveys…

A guide to survey research is presented for both novice and experienced researchers. Steps of the survey research process are covered: (1) planning the survey to determine the purpose of the study, collecting background information, designing the sample, and making a time line for completing the project; (2) questionnaire design, including the…

The method for questionnaire construction described in this paper makes it convenient to generate as many different forms for a questionnaire as there are respondents. The method is based on using the computer to produce the questionnaire forms themselves. In this way the items or subgroups of items of the questionnaire may be randomly ordered or…

Considered the therapeutic use of art, the current status of art therapy, and the growing need for art therapists in the future. (Author/RK)

One of the aims of this study was to recognize whether a change had occurred in the self-concept of Returning Women Students (RWS) between a previous academic experience and their return to formal education. (Author/RK)

One of six summaries of workshop sessions (See TM 000 130), designed to strengthen the evaluation of costly programs and their effects, this handbook presents an analysis of both random and nonrandom sampling errors by application of the Bayesian model. This model attempts to formalize the process and procedures of inference from data through…

An investigation of techniques used to maximize response rates was the purpose of this study. Variables included perceived threat of questionnaire, questionnaire length, cover letter approach, follow-up correspondence, stamped/unstamped return envelope, and anonymity. The sample comprised 4,608 college faculty. Three analyses of response rates…