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Hammer, Tove Helland – 1978
A study of a small employee-owned furniture company indicated that the three occupational groups agreed that management should have more influence in decisions affecting the future of the organization. On the other hand, issues which would directly affect employee welfare are seen as areas where control should be fairly evenly divided, with…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Decision Making, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Download full textChemers, Martin M.; And Others – 1976
The "psychological isotope" technique was used to study the effect of leadership style on group process and productivity, by planting identifiable units of information with specific group members. Data indicated that the movement of these traceable bits provides data on the flow of information in the group, the relative influence and…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conflict Resolution, Group Dynamics
Bigelow, George E. – 1978
Some of the unique characteristics of the drug abuse field which distinguish it from the other varieties of substance abuse and research methodologies for studying determinants of drug self-administration behavior which have been developed in response to these characteristics were investigated. Data suggest that residential drug…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Contingency Management
Evans, Paul L. – 1979
The opinions of 162 psychologists, 842 teachers, 125 public school administrators and 50 state departments of education were surveyed regarding the current status of service delivery and school psychology. The first questionnaire was directed to coordinators of school psychological services and school psychologists and requested information about…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
PDF pending restorationAxsom, Danny; Cooper, Joel – 1979
The possible influence of cognitive dissonance in psychotherapy was examined by conceptualizing therapy as an effort justification process. It was predicted that freely choosing to undergo a highly effortful procedure would aid in positive therapeutic change. Subjects (N=52) participated in a weight-reduction experiment in which the degree of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cognitive Style, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, DC. – 1977
Listed are visiting scholars from abroad who have been awarded grants under the provisions of the Fulbright-Hays Act for university lecturing and advanced research in the United States. Approximately 650 senior scholars from 67 countries are sponsored under the act, and all those whose grants were awarded or extended prior to September 15, 1977.…
Descriptors: Directories, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Foreign Nationals
Salomon, Gavriel – 1977
This report presents two research studies. The first, an experiment using 176 fifth graders, tested three hypotheses: (1) When content is held constant across messages, different formats of a medium differentially call for mental skills. (2) Formats which call for the same skills in different ways affect learners differently. (3) The TV formats…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Research
Jason, Leonard A.; And Others – 1977
This paper describes a first grader, manifesting high rates of problem behaviors in school, who was involved in two separate behavior management programs. Discussion of general behavior modification principles did not reduce problem behavior, but problem behaviors decreased considerably after daily letters from the teacher were sent to the child's…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Home Programs, Mothers, Motivation
Welsh, Jennifer M. – 1979
The way in which graduate students attending British universities approach their one year of research study and the problems they encounter as graduate students were studied as part of an investigation into postgraduate education undertaken at the University of Aberdeen. Of the 77 students, 56 (39 Ph.D., 17 Master's candidates) were registered in…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
National Swedish Board of Universities and Colleges, Stockholm. Research and Development Unit. – 1979
An overview of the Swedish program for research in the field of higher education is presented. The research program deals with questions concerning the role of higher education in society, the design and governance of the system of higher education, the environment and working methods of research and of teaching, and the interplay between research…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Role, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Fooden, Myra – 1978
The kinds of content areas that mature students in psychological studies and human development select to pursue, given almost limitless free choice, were investigated at Empire State College, New York. One hundred and two programs of study were reviewed during a two-year period. Results indicated that adult students selected traditional course…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Curriculum, Higher Education, Human Development
Jantz, Richard K.; And Others – 1978
In order to determine the manner and extent of treatment of the elderly in children's television programs, a random sample of children's programs was examined. The purpose was to discover how frequently elderly people appeared during evening and children's Saturday morning programs; in what roles they were presented; in what occupations they were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Childrens Television
HAINES, PETER G.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE PROGRESS OF THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (R AND D) PROGRAM IN VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION DURING THE FIRST 18-MONTH CONTRACT PERIOD IS SUMMARIZED, AND PROJECTIONS ARE MADE REGARDING ITS FUTURE OPERATION. THE R AND D PROGRAM IS ROOTED IN THE CLINICAL APPROACH TO TEACHER EDUCATION AND PROGRAM EXPERIMENTATION. THIS APPROACH UTILIZES THE…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Experiments, Program Descriptions, Program Development
KRYSTALL, ERIC R.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THIS INTERIM REPORT PRESENTS THE FINDINGS OF A STUDY OF NEGRO VOTING AND NEGRO ATTITUDES TOWARD SCHOOL DESEGREGATION. DATA WERE OBTAINED IN INTERVIEWS WITH 282 MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, NEGRO RESPONDENTS. WITHIN THE SAMPLE, 228 WERE REGISTERED VOTERS, OF WHOM 24 PERCENT REGISTERED AFTER THE DATE OF THE LOCAL ENFORCEMENT OF THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS BILL.…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Blacks, Elections, Free Choice Transfer Programs
HEGER, ROBERT J. – 1968
THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS OF SUPERINTENDENTS AS RELATED TO THE SYSTEM THEORY OF ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE WAS THE CENTRAL FOCUS OF THIS STUDY. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO ANALYZE SUPERINTENDENTS' DECISION MAKING AS RELATED TO MODIFYING AND INITIATING VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN IDAHO, (2) TO TEST A THEORY OF ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE AS RELATED…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Change Agents, Decision Making, Educational Change
