This article presents the transcript of Peter Webster's 2014 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address. Webster comments on several big ideas in music education: (1) The consideration of teaching as a blend of constructivist approaches and direct instruction that values student-centered work primarily as evidence of learning; (2) The…

"Creativity training may be included as a portion of an existing elementary methods course and effect gratifying creativity improvement with no loss in subject-matter achievement." The possibility that "the creativity-trained person becomes more creative because he values creativity more" suggests a modification of Guilford's Structure of…

Investigated was the influence of instruction in process skills on preservice teacher achievement, attitude toward process skills, and their use of process objectives and activities in lesson plans. Results indicated preservice teachers receiving process skill instruction improved in all areas relating to process education. (SL)

Presents results of experiments testing the value of multi-image learning materials in promoting the learning of content and in changing students' attitudes toward content. The subject matter for the multi-image unit was bulletin boards, an area traditionally uninteresting to undergraduate education students enrolled in an audiovisual methods…

Investigated were the effects of a modified elementary science education methods course on creative thinking, self-evaluation and achievement. Involved were 30 experimental and 39 control undergraduate elementary science education methods course students. Controls were given usual laboratory sessions and written assignments. Experimental…

Fifty pre-service elementary education majors were studied prior to student teaching to determine if open-minded majors showed greater promise of being capable of teaching science than closed-minded majors. Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale Form E was used to attain a dichotomy in a 50 member methods class. The areas of concern and instruments used to…

Attitudes toward science, process skills knowledge and self-concept were all found to be significantly intercorrelated; self concept was the only predictor of achievement. (CP)

Achievement scores of student teachers in the areas of science, humanities, and social studies on tests of five process skills are compared. Fifty-four subjects were assigned to treatment (auto-tutorial) and control (lecture-discussion) groups. Subjects experiencing auto-tutorial instruction were found to achieve significantly higher than those in…

A "Motivation" eliciting the "Aim" of each lesson initiates each lesson in the orthodox "developmental lesson-plan" that has dominated classroom instruction in NYC public schools for at least the past half-century. An action-research study of 38 lesson-plans (over 5 each from 5 teachers) drawn from student-teaching…