Student performance in a Programmed Achievement (PA) condition, requiring weekly quiz mastery, and in a Standard Control (S-C) condition, with no mastery requirement, was compared. PA students showed higher performance on weekly quizzes and a major exam. PA females increased more rapidly than PA males, but S-C males and females were similar.…

Published research productivity of 97 sociologists from a variety of types of institutions is evaluated quantitatively for both the pretenure period and the post-tenure period in the person's career. Data consist of vita and supplementary information, coded into a weighted index that takes journal prestige into account. (Author/LBH)

Results from a questionnaire returned from 354 faculty members at a large university showed that their sensitivity to job satisfaction items centered primarily in three areas of concern: extrinsic job factors, department head actions, and promotion and salary. (Author/LBH)

Data on 115 colleges and universities show the effect of the qualifications of the faculty and decentralization of authority on faculty influence over general educational policy and faculty appointments. Findings suggest that highly qualified faculties have more influence via formal decision-making bodies. (Author/LBH)

Three consequences of class size variation are examined: (1) The average class size experienced by students is directly related to the amount of variation in class size; (2) Overall student attendance is inversely related to the amount of variation in class size; and (3) overall student participation time is directly related to the amount of…

Whether various correlates of within-class ratings are to be interpreted as biasing factors or as natural influences on social perception is analyzed in terms of whether students' ratings are objective descriptions or subjective, evaluative reactions. (An extensive bibliography is included.) (Author/LBH)

This study tests a model of predicting faculty success in the fields of chemistry, physics, sociology, and political science. Three hypotheses are tested separately for tenured and nontenured groups. The policy implications of the model regarding graduate department management are discussed. (Author/LBH)

Faculty most heavily involved in research (as rated by department heads) were found to establish higher academic standards (as rated by students) than those less involved in research. In natural-mathematical sciences student ratings were positively related to research involvement; in social-behavioral were negatively related. (Editor/JT)

A study explored the differences in academic adjustment variables between students who made congruent, incongruent, and undecided college major choices as measured by the Vocational Preference Inventory. Findings suggest that students in the congruent female and male groups tend to be more academically adjusted than those in the undecided male…

Data about alumni, students, and staff--organized around concepts of job entry, decisions, and changes in goals, jobs, and majors--revealed the importance of satisfaction on the first job, a changing relationship between jobs and majors, the impact of the liberal arts' study on educational aspirations, and the rationale for choice. (Editor/JT)

Freshmen at two institutions sampled had significantly higher ratings of the climate on an intellectualism/scholarship factor than seniors. As length of exposure to the institution increased (comparing freshmen with seniors) assessments of the environmental press by male and female students tended to diverge. (Editor/JT)

Humanities majors at one of two institutions studied rated the institutional climate significantly higher on an Aestheticism/Idealism factor than their peers in the social sciences. Social science majors at both universities rated the climate of their institution significantly higher on a Bureaucracy factor than either humanities or natural…

A survey revealed basic agreement between administrators, chairmen, graduate assistants, faculty, and undergraduates with regard to many aspects of graduate assistantships. Graduate Assistants were found to have little knowledge of many departmental concerns directly affecting them. Formalized policies vary with assistantship classifications.…

Expressed satisfaction of students with their environment was measured before and after three conditions: (1) discussion to develop recommendations for administrative change; (2) opportunity to express feelings to each others; (3) no treatment. Findings show students would benefit from opportunity to express ideas concerning environmental change.…

Reports a questionnaire survey of faculty following the election of a collective bargaining agent at the 14 Pennsylvania state colleges. Identifies relationships between faculty choice and influence of internal vs. external governance matters on voting, demographic faculty characteristics, and attitudes toward contending associations, scope of…