The article discusses conditions in rural school settings which may create or exacerbate problems of burnout among rural school pyschologists. Specifically, problems concerning role and function, professional support, visibility, and preservice training are related to rural practice. Also, suggestions for coping with stress and burnout in rural…

Assessment and comparison of attitudes of rural Wyoming special educators (67), elementary teachers (307), principals (66), and special education directors (26) regarding instructional models for disabled students revealed satisfaction. While statistically significant differences existed on 8 of 18 variables, the grand mean of responses fell…

A total of 144 teachers from rural and urban schools in North Dakota responded to open-ended questions related to students' behavior problems. Differences between students from rural and urban schools are described in the areas of serious behavior problems, handling behavior problems, and eliminating behavior problems. (Author/NEC)

The study compared academic progress and behavioral ratings of students in an interrelated special education program with those of students in a categorical program. Subjects were 92 mildly disabled students from two rural special education cooperatives. Results indicated that overall student performance did not differ significantly between the…

A five-year follow-up survey was conducted with both rural and urban Tennessee school administrators to ascertain current school psychology human resource characteristics and needs and to determine how these parameters have changed over that period of time. There are implications for overall human resource concerns and Master Teacher-Better…

Compares attitudes of Maine elected school officials, teachers, and community members on 18 educational issues including teacher and administrator salaries, merit salary increases, teacher competency exams, tenure, collective bargaining, truancy/drop-out rates, student competency exams, graduation requirements, discipline, substance abuse,…

Reports responses of 693 teachers to the Survey of Supervisory Practices in four rural, central Pennsylvania school districts. Finds six statistically significant factors that are related to teachers' perceptions of the helpfulness of supervison in the improvement of their classroom instruction. (NEC)

The development of a "change index" and its application in evaluating the relative performance of individual doctorate-granting universities in hiring and promoting women faculty is reported. A wide range of institutional performance in hiring and promoting women faculty was revealed. (Author/MLW)

Differences were studied in the job status, stability, and satisfaction of recent four-year college graduates with varying lengths of attendance at two-year institutions. The administrative and research implications of these results are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Once conducted in private by a small group of trustees, presidential searches occur today in a climate of constituency participation and access to information. A survey to examine current search practices regarding constituency involvement and confidentiality and disclosure is reported. (Author/MLW)

Two factors were investigated: the longitudinal nature of student ratings of instructors and the use of item banks for designing student rating questionnaires, especially for instructor feedback. (Author/MLW)

A quantitative study of the degree of substitutability between men and women faculty in higher education and the extent to which salary differentials have played a role in altering sex distribution in academe suggests nonsalary factors are responsible. (MSE)

Using College Board file information and a follow-up of 1981 high school graduates, the educational plans, educational outcomes, and other characteristics of students with different combinations of family incomes and test scores were compared in a study of the influence of those factors on educational outcomes. (MSE)

A cost analysis of educating foreign students is discussed in the context of a need for improved policy regarding the flow of foreign students through American institutions. (MSE)

A review of the literature and of currently available computer programs for the use of log-linear models in analysis of qualitative data is presented, and two types of log-linear models and procedures for investigating both types are outlined. (MSE)