Educational Administration Quarterly

The author presents a view of the self-development, work, and nonwork elements shaping the career of one upwardly mobile educator with the intention of calling attention to the multifaceted character of the forces influencing teachers and administrators at work.

This study of objective isolation and subjective alienation of elementary school teachers builds on prior investigations. It extends the findings on alienation in the work place, and the researchers found a high degree of isolation and alienation in the elementary school setting. In addition, limited interaction and a paucity of informal influence structures at the elementary school level were indicated by the analyses of the study.

Dyad and panel formats as used in selection interviews were investigated in a simulated teacher selection experiment. Extant research addressing group decision making suggests that decisions arrived at through the group process are different from those arrived at by an individual. Findings from this study suggested that this was true in the selection interview situation. Decisions made by administrators conducting dyad interviews were differentfrom those made by administrators in the panel interview situation.

This is a study of the administrative aspirations of male and female faculty members in land grant universities. Preferences for beginning level positions and those ultimately sought are explored as well as selected demographic characteristics of the respondents. Some of the myths regarding women's administrative aspirations are refuted by the researchers' analyses.

A new application of DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) is examined for evaluating the efficiency of occupational-technicalprograms in a comprehensive community college. This includes extensions of DEA for use in evaluating new programs that might be introduced along with possible combinations of old programs. Emphasis is placed on the relative efficiency aspects of DEA so that consequences for the efficiency ofprograms other than those being considered can be taken into account. Uses by the director of San Antonio College are described and placed in a context of the other elements that entered into her decisions. In conclusion, possible further improvements in DEA are discussed along with the kinds of research needed to achieve them.