Findings of a study that identified time management strategies used by schools involved in restructuring to address the problem of time are presented in this paper, which is based on the assertion that school faculties need time to restructure while implementing new programs. Methodology involved a survey of 31 schools and 14 school districts that…

This booklet highlights the results of research findings on the impact of television on children and provides advice for parents on why and how they can exercise some moderating influence on television's impact. The issues covered include the effect of the amount of time children spend watching television, the impact on children of televised…

Women who occupy the managerial ranks in today's world lead busy, often frustrating lives. In this study, 75 female managers in business and education were interviewed to determine their feelings about their careers, their major sources of stress, their sacrifices when entering management, the barriers they faced, and how they cope with their…

The presence of family caregivers in their homes has mitigated the need for the elderly to choose between reducing health services (and thus health) to levels that they can afford or going into serious debt to maintain health. However, caregivers must balance their role of health producer in the home with their role of income producer in the labor…

In an earlier laboratory experiment using university students in the United States, Tang and Baumeister (1984) examined the effects of the Leisure Ethic, Type A personality, and task labels on subjects' task performance. The results showed that the interaction between Leisure Ethic endorsement and task label was significant among Type A…

A pilot study examined how newspaper advertising sales managers in five southwestern states spend their time during a typical work day. Of the 360 questionnaires mailed, 176 responses were received. The largest number of responses (93) came from retail sales managers of newspapers in markets with less than 50,000 population. The questionnaire…

Effective school management requires managers who succeed in carrying out the organizational goals of their schools, utilizing the following leadership skills: planning (deciding how to accomplish the organization's goals); organizing (doing the necessary preparation); staffing (filling positions with the right people); directing (motivating staff…

Popular and applied business literature related to self-improvement is reviewed in this working paper, one of eight which provide background information for the staff of the Skills Essential to Learning Television Project (a multi-level series of video and print resources for classroom use). A review of theories of time management in section I…

Compared the time-use in household work of school-age children in single-parent/one-earner, two-parent/one-earner, and two-parent/two earner households (N=170). Children in two-parent families were found to spend less actual and relative amounts of time on all household work than children in single-parent families. (Author/ABL)

Describes the Guidance Shorts program which was developed to meet the needs of children in a specific school setting. Discusses implementation of the weekly classroom activities and presents a sample Guidance Short lesson. (ABB)

Four brief articles look at aspects of curriculum based measurement (CBM) for academically handicapped students including procedures of CBM with examples, different approaches to graphing student performance, and solutions to the problem of making time to measure student progress frequently. (DB)

Research indicates that students achieve better when teachers have a wide array of skills and adapt these skills to different contexts. Teachers differ on how they perform these instructional behaviors. This article shows that attempts to improve student achievement must be based on the development of more effective teaching behavior. (Author/VM)

Students from a high school psychology class were subjects in a study of the effect of tutorials versus study time on student performance. Tutoring produced content knowledge for tutors who worked with partners. (LMO)

Examined time use attitudes for 353 elementary and secondary school students. Identified four constructs to student attitudes toward time, while the school organization operates within a homogeneous view of time. Suggests school personnel become aware of differences in time use attitudes of students when designing instructional strategies and…

The article examines burnout among teachers of the gifted including problems resulting from burnout such as absence, lower productivity, and loss of quality teachers. Among solutions proposed are support systems at several levels, time management, and education/communication with persons outside the program. (Author/DB)