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Brinkman, Paul T. | Factors affecting instructional costs at major research universities | The purpose of this article is to analyze in quantitative terms why unit instructional costs differ among major research universities. Previous studies have uncovered many of the factors that account for costs in higher education. The primary task here is to specify the relative importance of thes... | Research universities; Costs; Instruction | 1981 |
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Pounder, Diana G. | Theory to practice: a description and multi-dimensional evaluation of the University of Utah's educational administration Ed.D. program | The purpose of this paper is tp describe the University of Utah's recently revised Ed.D. program and to report the results of several program evaluation efforts conducted since i t s implementation. In particular, the most recent evaluation study assesses the effectiveness of the field-based doctora... | | 1995 |
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Pounder, Diana G. | Theory to practice in administrator preparation: an evaluation study | The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of a field-based doctoral program in educational administration on linking theory and research to the improvement of practice. Specifically, the study evaluates the degree and ways in which doctoral student field-based projects and studies c... | Educational administration; Doctoral programs; Theory-practice programs | 1995 |
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Pounder, Diana G.; Bergerson, Amy A. | Job desirability of the university professorate in the field of educational leadership | This survey research study uses job choice theory to assess recent educational leadership doctoral graduates' perceptions of the desirability of the educational administration professorate. Results reveal attractive and unattractive aspects of professorial work as well as those job attributes that ... | Educational administration; Professorial work | 2004 |
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Pounder, Diana G. | Decision making in videotaped selection interviews: age and position effects retested | This study was designed to test the effects of a candidate's age and the effect of the type of position under consideration on candidate ratings as assessed from a videotaped interview simulation. To investigate the effect of these variables, a 2 x 2 factorial design was used. The independent varia... | | 1985 |
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Johnson, Bob L. | Extending the study of learning environments: Connecting the field to other literatures | The study of learning environments in educational organisations has a short but impressive history. A review of this literature reveals that considerable progress has been made in the investigation of this phenomenon. Yet in spite of these advances, momentum in the field has diminished in recent yea... | Organizational theory; Learning environments | 2002 |
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Bergerson, Amy A. | Outreach and identity development: New perspectives on college student persistence | College student persistence continues to pose challenges for higher education institutions, despite over 40 years of research. Although persistence is studied from many different angles, the majority of studies examining the causes of and cures for students' departure from college reflect the import... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Hillman, Nicholas W | What matters in student loan default: a review of the research literature | Federal higher education policy has shifted over the past few decades from grants to loans as the primary means for providing access to postsecondary education for low and moderate-income families. With this shift, policy makers have begun tracking student loan default rates as a key indicator of th... | | 2009 |
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Brinkman, Paul T. | Instructional costs per student credit hour: differences by level of instruction | The variation of unit costs by level of instruction, on either a per-student or per-student-credit-hour basis, is a traditional issue in the economics and finance of higher education. Funding formulas, for either requesting or allocating funds, often include recognition of an institution's effort by... | | 1989 |
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Pounder, Diana G. | Organizational orientation in public and private elementary schools | In this study, we investigated the relationship between organizational value orientation and tow variables, organizational commitment and job satisfaction, among teachers from private and public elementary schools. | Organizational commitment; Job satisfaction; Value orientation | 1993 |
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Brinkman, Paul T. | Concepts of cost and cost analysis for higher education | Costing can be a useful planning and management tool. It can provide information relevant to assessing operational efficiency, planning an investment strategy, evaluating comparative performance, or justifying funding requests and prices charged for services (Balderston, 1972), Given the utility of... | Management; Budgeting; Planning | 1986 |
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Johnson, Bob L. | Toward a synthesis of inquiry on environmental robustness | Our approach has emphasized the development of ideas over the systematic criticism of specific studies. Perhaps some may view these ideas as useful starting points for new inquiry. The least we might expect from such inquiry is a better understanding of why some students and teachers claim that scho... | Education; Schools; Boredom; Robustness | 1989 |
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Bergerson, Amy A. | Gender disparity in engineering: results and analysis from school counselors survey and national vignette | In an earlier paper by our group [1] we presented statistical analysis based on 30 years of ACT data illustrating gender disparity in engineering majors and career choices. Obtained results also revealed the presence of a large number of students who are interested in engineering but who may not be ... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Hillman, Nicholas W | Tuition discounting for revenue management | Over the past decade, institutionally-funded financial aid (or "tuition discounts") have been the fastest-growing item within most public four-year college and university operating budgets. One explanation for this trend is due to the changing structure of public colleges' revenue streams, as tuitio... | | 2010 |
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Hillman, Nicholas W | Preparing for the silver tsunami: the demand for higher education among older adults | (Over the next decade, Baby Boomers will be reaching retirement age in large numbers and the U.S. will be undergoing one of the most significant demographic shifts in its history. This demographic shift has important implications for the role of higher education as a provider of lifelong learning an... | | 2010 |
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Hillman, Nicholas W | The impact of state appropriations and grants on access to higher education and outmigration | Education policymakers at all levels of government have long been interested in finding ways to entice more students to go to college. This goal has been driven by the belief that, as people acquire more education, they not only reap personal benefits from their investment in education, but they als... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Hillman, Nicholas W | The ethical dimensions of awarding financial aid | Abstract In countries charging tuition fees, and those that are considering adopting tuition fee policies, recent economic conditions are making education less affordable and accessible for students (Johnstone & Marcucci, 2010; Schwarzenberger & Opheim, 2009). To combat these challenges, nations, ... | | 2011 |
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Brinkman, Paul T. | Student price response in higher education: the student demand studies | What happens to enrollments when colleges and universities raise their prices? Who, if anyone, is sent away? What is the net impact of higher prices and reduced enrollments upon institutional financial ledgers? These questions have been investigated in what have come to be called the "student dem... | Enrollment; Colleges; Universities; Student demand; Tuition | 1987 |
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Bergerson, Amy A. | Will work for a college education: an analysis of the role employment plays in the experiences of first-year college students | College students across the United States struggle with the challenges of balancing work and school. In 2005, 29.5% of full-time students worked over 20 hours a week while attending college, with 70.1% of their part-time counterparts in the workplace for 20 or more hours each week (NCES, 2005). Give... | Social class; Income; Hierarchy | 2007 |
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Pounder, Diana G. | Opportunities and challenges of school collaboration | Collaborative work organizations and related themes (such as community, cooperation, etc.) have become the focus of both research and practice in education during the past few years. Some may view emphasis on collaboration (or community) in schools as the second stage of the initial "site-based m... | School collaboration | 1999 |
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Pounder, Diana G. | Teacher teams: promoting teacher involvement and leadership in secondary schools | Employee involvement efforts in schools have increasingly encouraged employee involvement in planning and governance procedures. Most involvement efforts could be described as suggestion involvement or individual job enhancement approaches, although these currently emphasized approaches to teache... | Educational planning; Governance | 1997 |
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Brinkman, Paul T. | Financial impact of part-time enrollments on two-year colleges: a marginal cost perspective | The number of part-time students attending public two-year colleges increased rapidly during the 1970s. By the end of the decade, aggregate part-time enrollment constituted about 63 percent of total headcount enrollment at those institutions. Concern has been expressed about the financial implicatop... | Students; Part-time; Full-time; Colleges; Costs | 1985 |
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Pounder, Diana G.; Sperry, David J.; Drew, Clifford J. | Educator evaluation and the law: a case study of common statutory problems | Statutorily many states have gone through an evolutionary process regarding educator evaluation. This often results in a disconnected body of laws and amendments that create problems with respect to purposes of evaluation, appropriate standards and methods to be employed, and implementation strategi... | Parsimony; Incompetence, Preformance | 1992 |
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Groth, Cori Ann | Six factors of successful school improvement: blueprint for reform or process for continual school improvement? | The last two decades have brought considerable attention to schoolwide improvements intended to raise student achievement-particularly in the area of literacy. In response to the emphasis on improved student achievement, many promising programs for school improvement have emerged. These programs, ... | Schools; Student achievement; Literacy | 2000 |
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Pounder, Diana G. | Gender-related biases in admission decisions | The competitive admission process for educational programs in health sciences usually begins with a screening phase. Raters, who are often the same people who later interview the applicants, screen candidates based on information on their application forms. Only the applicants who survive the scree... | Attractiveness; Attributions; Evaluation | 1993 |
