The impact of (1) college experiences, (2) attribution beliefs and attitudes about punitiveness, (3) educational and academic characteristics, and (4) freshmen level of moral judgment development on the level of moral development of upper-division students is reported. For freshmen with high moral reasoning scores, participation in extracurricular…

A study is reported that found marital status to be an important predictor of community college graduating quality point average in the following programs of study: Business Administration General, Business Administration Transfer, Executive Secretarial, and Nursing Education. (Author/MLW)

A state survey of all two-year colleges in New York focused on the assessment of academic advising in order to facilitate recommendations for institutional policymaking. Questions were asked about preservice and inservice training of advisers, and the evaluation of advisers and the advising process. (Author/MLW)

A study in which Filipino and American undergraduate students rated college instructor characteristics according to their perceived importance for effective teaching is discussed. Filipino students rated items pertaining to authoritarianism and personal appearance of the instructor as significantly more important for effective teaching than did…

A study of professional activity in retirement of emeriti, including emeriti who left the University of Iowa community after retirement and emeriti who continued to live in the community for part of the year, is discussed. Interviews were conducted with 113 emeritus professors. (Author/MLW)

The effectiveness of peer-centered and instructor-centered formats for teaching-assistant led discussion sections in chemistry was examined. Students with interpersonally oriented learning styles benefited more from interactive learning opportunities while those with other learning styles gained more from impersonal media such as textbooks.…

Using 276 students from Boston University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the relationships between types of students and their work values and motivational profiles were investigated by means of factor and discriminant analyses. The vocational model is contrasted with the collegiate, nonconformist, and academic groups. (Author/MLW)

A study of the persistence behavior of students who drop college courses included predictions concerning which students were most likely to drop courses, which courses were most likely to be dropped, and at what point in the semester students were most likely to drop courses. (Author/MLW)

Drawing on data collected in a national study of doctoral program quality, information is examined pertaining to the graduate department's learning environment, the extent of faculty members' concern for students, graduate student assistantship experiences, and faculty satisfactions and views about various departmental practices and policies.…

The origins of institutional research and its association with a planning function are reviewed. The role of values, politics, and social pressures in regard to the planning function are examined. Planning is likely to be more directed to attaining administrative and faculty aspirations than to meeting educational and social needs. (Author/MLW)

The usefulness of faculty ratings of departments and department heads as a measure of departmental quality is examined. It is found that the performance of the department head plays a very important role in faculty perceptions of the departments, and vice versa. (Author/MLW)

The assessment of the effects of college social prestige and college selectivity on men's occupational status and income based on a national sample of men from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics is discussed. College selectivity has a significant impact on middle-aged men's income in a single year. (Author/MLW)

The history of evaluations of academic departments through peer review rankings and subsequent attempts to identify empirical correlates of the ratings are reviewed. Findings indicate that American Council on Education rankings can be predicted by the departmental rate of publication in highly cited journals. (Author/MLW)

A study conducted in Israel and the United States to develop a scale of students' satisfaction with college instruction, to assess the dimensions behind the scale, and to examine four predictors (sex, major, school year, and academic performance) that may affect satisfaction with instruction is presented. (Author/MLW)

A study of the increase in numbers of administrative personnel at four regional universities in Kentucky during an 11-year period is described. The growth in number of administrators and administrative staff exceeded that of other indicators of university growth such as number of faculty, students, and graduates. (Author/MLW)