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McCoach, D. Betsy; Siegle, Del – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2007
The present study explores teachers' attitudes toward the gifted and gifted education. Specifically, the authors examine whether teachers tailor their responses about attitudes toward the gifted to fit the perceived interests of the researcher. In addition, the authors examine several potential predictors of attitudes toward the gifted: training…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Interests, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Bogenschild, Erika Gierl; And Others – 1988
Attrition statistics were analyzed for the entire teaching population in Wisconsin from 1984-1988. Teachers with provisional certification were more likely to leave teaching than were fully certified teachers during the first 2 years of the study, but during the third year of the study, attrition rates were comparable. Attrition rates of special…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Predictor Variables

Riley, Dan – Journal of Educational Administration, 1984
A study of public school teachers in Iowa assessed their interest and involvement in participatory decision making at the classroom, building, and district levels. The strongest correlations found linked the teacher's sex and the educational level at which they taught with the types of participation in which they were involved. (PGD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making, Predictor Variables, Teacher Attitudes

Koballa, Thomas R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1986
Discusses a study which examined the attitudinal and subjective norm variables which impact the behavioral intentions of preservice elementary teachers. Results suggest that measuring preservice teachers' attitudes toward science cannot adequately predict nor provide a satisfactory explanation of their science teaching behaviors. (ML)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Experiential Learning, Predictor Variables

Murphy, Molly; Vincent, Lisbeth J. – Journal of Early Intervention, 1989
Forty-nine day care center teachers rated the importance of certain behaviors/skills in the successful performance of handicapped young children in day care. Communication skills were rated as the most important, followed in order by independence, social interaction, compliance to rules/routines, and preacademic skills. (JDD)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Caregivers, Day Care
Blackbourn, Richard – 1983
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between teachers' perceptions of instructional evaluations by principals and their attitudes toward the supervisory conference. It also sought to determine whether teachers' attitudes are affected by six different variables: race, age, sex, years of teaching, level of assignment, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Age, Communication Problems, Educational Development
Goolsby, Charlee B.; And Others – 1987
This study investigated the relationship of several affective variables as predictors of academic performance in mathematics. The predictor variables studied were: (1) attitude toward success in mathematics; (2) confidence in learning mathematics; (3) perceptions of teacher attitude; (4) mathematics anxiety; and (5) locus of control. The sample of…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Algebra, College Mathematics, High Risk Students
Arnold, Gertrude L.; And Others – 1996
This study of faculty stress used data from the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey administrated in the 1992-93 academic year. The total data set includes survey information from more than 43,000 faculty at nearly 300 higher education institutions in the United States. For this study, data for 29,064 full-time teaching faculty were…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Workload, Full Time Faculty, Higher Education
Davenport, William S. – 1991
In 1991, a study was conducted at Broome Community College in New York to determine the differences between those faculty members and administrators that supported affirmative action/equal access and those who did not. The study was undertaken to determine whether policies and procedures needed to be refined to ensure equal access and promotional…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Affirmative Action, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Gubbins, E. Jean; Siegle, Del, Ed. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented Newsletter, 2000
These two newsletters from the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT) contain the following articles: (1) "NRC/GT: Professional Development--Not an Event" (E. Jean Gubbins), discusses NRC/GT research-based principles related to professional development and the importance of ongoing professional development; (2)…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Attention Deficit Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities