The Administrative Stress Index, a 35-item questionnaire, was designed, validated, and sent to members of the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators to identify perceived job stress, to establish stress categories, and to discover how administrators cope with stress. Usable responses were received from 1,156 elementary and secondary…

Fall 1981 data on the salaries of 480 administrative faculty other than deans in baccalaureate and graduate programs in nursing are presented. Of the 256 schools that supplied data for a previous survey of nursing faculty salaries, 141 participated in the current administrative faculty salaries survey. All salary tables are presented on both an…

This paper discusses a study undertaken to determine the influence of Catholic parents on the prayer-related religious behavior of their adolescent children from 1963 to 1974. Frequency of prayer was selected as a measure of religious behavior because, while it is a traditional behavior which indicates the intensity of one's religious belief, it…

Eighth in a series of reports which compile and interpret statistical information of direct concern to life insurance executives, this publication contains a profile of the U.S. population for the 1980s and beyond. Tables of data and an analysis are provided. Topics covered include population growth, age and race, residence, households,…

A detailed description is provided of the variable belief in individual differences (INDIV), which is part of the analysis in phase I of the Evaluation of Practices in Individualized Schooling. The variable is defined; the questionnaires on which the variable is based are listed; the procedures used to scale the variable are explained; the…

A detailed description is provided of the variable general staff background (GSB), which is part of the analysis in phase I of the Evaluation of Practices in Individualized Schooling. The variable is defined, the questionnaires on which the variable is based are listed; the procedures used to scale the variable are explained; the distribution of…

Employment statistics of colleges and universities in New York State are listed for full- and part-time employees, numbers of men and women, occupational activity, institutional classification, salary and tenure status, and percentage distribution of faculty by age and racial/ethnic origin. The following information appears in tabular form: (1)…

This issue of Measurement in Education is presented in the form of a dialogue between Dr. Robert L. Ebel, Distinguished Professor of Educational Measurement at Michigan State University, and Dr. Samual A. Livingston, Program Research Scientist at the Educational Testing Service. Alternative views on some aspects of the use of tests in assessing…

An apparent increase in the turnover of superintendents in recent years raises questions as to the possible causes of this situation and as to the characteristics that enhance compatibility between districts and superintendents, encouraging lengthy tenure. A study of 153 public school districts with enrollment between 3,000 and 5,000 attempted to…

A nine-year evaluation of the effects of Illinois' 1973 school finance reforms on educational equity indicated that the degree of equity increased from 1972 until about 1977 but then decreased through 1981. The researchers measured educational equity in terms of both wealth (or fiscal) neutrality and the variation among school districts in…

A number of sample inventories were conducted to measure the effectiveness of the Tattle-Tape book detection systems used in the Moffitt Undergraduate Library and the General Reference Services area of Doe Library, and to establish baseline data for missing materials in four branch libraries (Education-Psychology, Engineering, Environmental…

A teaching aid appropriate for a beginning course on experimental design is presented. The aid is a numerical example which illustrates some of the theoretical interrelations among three competing design analysis strategies for estimating treatment effects in random assignment designs. The analysis strategies considered are analysis of variance…

The technical problems involved in obtaining Bayesian model estimates for the regression parameters in m similar groups are studied. The available computer programs, BPREP (BASIC), and BAYREG, both written in FORTRAN, require an amount of computer processing that does not encourage regular use. These programs are analyzed so that the performance…

Television viewing habits, program preferences, and parental guidance at 5,167 randomly selected urban/rural Kansas children in grades 4-9 were studied. Data collected by the administration of structured questionnaires to the children in 254 classrooms and separate questionnaires completed by 4,882 of the childrens' parents indicated that: (1) the…

Using statistical analyses of 1960 and 1970 census data, this paper explores reasons for the remarkable rise in the relative wage of black women in the United States. Education, government employment, geographical region of residence (South or non-South), and hours worked are the four variables employed. The analytical framework of the study is…