Determinants of stable volunteering in Swiss soccer clubs

This study analysed the underlying determinants of soccer club volunteers’ tendency to continue or terminate their voluntary engagement. Stable voluntary engagement was analysed in terms of volunteers’ subjective expectations regarding club-related working conditions, expressed by level of job satisfaction and orientation of collective solidarity to their soccer club. These relationships were tested empirically using an online questionnaire with 345 volunteers in a selection of 20 Swiss soccer clubs. The results indicate that the volunteers’ job satisfaction and orientation toward collective solidarity correlated positively with their volunteering commitment. The discussion presents recommendations to help both Swiss soccer clubs as well as the Swiss Soccer Association to retain their volunteers more effectively.     

A Brief History of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (TEA)

The origins and development of the IEA are traced from its origins with a group of assessment professionals to its status as a major international organisation carrying out large‐scale educational surveys. The paper describes the people and the projects in its short history and looks at its future prospects.     

Educational Research in a Meritocratic Society

Educational research deserving the name is bound to be closely related not only to the pressing problems of the practitioners in the field, but to the burning issues which policy makers try to come to grips with as well. Even though (Husén & Kogan, Eds., 1984) – and rightly so – researchers, as true academics, often emphasize the importance of tackling fundamental problems, they cannot avoid being affected by the priorities set by the policy makers. These priorities are reflected in how research funds are allocated to various fields. To be sure, researchers are like other human beings: they are not insensitive to money. Like bees they tend to flock to the flowers where the most attractive nectar is to be found.     

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Donald C. Willis' The Films of Frank Capra (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974---$7.50)

Mervyn LeRoy (as told to Dick Kleiner) Mervyn LeRoy: Take One (New York: Hawthorn, 1974---$10.00)

Willi Frischauer's Behind the Scenes of Otto Preminger: An Unauthorized Biography (New York: Morrow, 1974---$7.95)

Raymond Durgnat's The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock. or the Plain Man's Hitchock (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1974---$15.00)

Stig Bjorkman, Torsten banns, and Jonas Sima's Bergman on Bergman" Interviews with Ingmar Bergman (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974---$9.95)

Jean Renoir's My Life and My Films (New York: Atheneum, 1974---$10.00)

Alfred Appel's Nabokov's Dark Cinema (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974)