This research sought to determine if graduate students taking distance education classes desire student-to-student interaction. Over 200 graduate students who completed one or more distance education graduate classes in agricultural and extension education from North Carolina State University during the past three years were surveyed. While some…

Teacher educators have the task of identifying skills most needed by pre-service teachers and in-service teachers. The purpose of this study was to describe teacher concerns over different stages of teacher development. A three-part instrument consisting of a teacher concerns statement, a Likert-type scale of concerns and demographic data was…

Since the passage of the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA), the total population of students with special needs being served in schools has risen from 5 percent in 1976 to 8.6 percent in 2006. One of the greatest ramifications of the passage of this education legislation is the push toward creating classrooms where all students…

Agricultural teachers in North Carolina were surveyed to assess their attitudes toward Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) and to identify barriers to implementation of SAE in their schools. The teachers gave the politically correct answers about why SAE was important. The teachers indicated that SAE was important (8.46 on a 10 point scale)…

The author provides a brief introduction to philosophy, including areas of study within this discipline and various schools of thought. He comments on the usefulness of philosophy to teachers of agriculture. (CH)

Suggests that the traditional problem-solving approach to teaching vocational agriculture be reexamined and at least partially replaced with other methods. (JOW)

Vocational education researchers have relied heavily on opinionnaires to measure opinions and attitudes. Usually respondents are asked to indicate their degree of agreement to an attitude or opinion statement. Where significant statistical differences exist for opinions/attitudes there is still always the problem of confidence with which…

A group of 13 articles discusses agricultural education in the 1980s. Includes a view from Washington, recollections of national leaders, and reactions from a secondary vocational agriculture teacher, state supervisor, and teacher educator. (JOW)

North Carolina agriculture teachers with High Schools that Work integration grants (n=32) were compared with 32 without grants. Overall, the level of academic integration into agricultural education was low. Teachers with grants did not have more positive attitudes about integration. Time and administrative support were significant barriers to…

Discusses a study that concluded that reflective teaching is as effective as microteaching in preparing students to teach. No differences were found in the dependent variables according to the type of teaching laboratory. Student attitudes toward teaching, perceptions of teaching and teaching ability, and performance during student teaching were…

The purpose of this research was to determine whether using an audience response system improves student achievement. Audience response systems are computer-based tools for use in classrooms for the purpose of providing feedback to students on questions asked during instruction. This study used a quasi-experimental design to determine if students…

This study assessed the perceptions of agricultural teacher educators (n=176) experienced in international work related to agricultural development and improvement of the well-being of rural populations in developing countries. Although there are many problems, the consensus was that the agricultural education profession could provide some…

Agriculture teachers in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia (n=165) rated 77 student misbehaviors; none ranked higher than two on a four-point scale. The most serious problem was negative attitudes about school. Compared with 1984 and 1988 surveys, ambivalent attitudes dropped from first to 20th place, suggesting that ambivalence may have…

To improve accountability in its vocational agriculture program, Fort Frye High School, Beverly, Ohio, developed a student placement folder. It includes the student's picture, autobiography, information sheet, equipment and skills sheet, references, letters of recommendation, and a copy of his high school transcript. The confidentiality of the…

Examines an experiment which compares the effects of two forms of laboratory teaching experience (reflective teaching and microteaching) on student teachers' views of themselves as teachers, attitudes toward teaching, perceptions of the role of teaching, attitudes toward the type of laboratory teaching experience engaged in, and teaching…