Meeting the needs of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds is a serious concern that schools are facing. This article describes an evaluation of embedding culturally and linguistically diverse evidence-based practices in a master's program for teacher candidates seeking endorsement in special education. A…

The purpose of the study is to analyze the concerns of last year preservice teachers at the department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology, at one university in Ankara, toward the use of e-learning. These preservice teachers were assumed as prospective change agents for the use of e-leaning in any organization such as school,…

Describes a mentoring program for preservice teachers that focused on the use of the Internet for teaching and learning. Discusses use of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model, which describes three developmental phases of concerns regarding innovation and change; and the Stages of Concern Questionnaire and its validity for preservice teachers.…

The Stages of Concerns Questionnaire (SoCQ) is an established instrument which has been used primarily with inservice teachers involved in innovations. While it focuses on inservice teachers' concerns about an innovation, the instrument is based on theoretical constructs developed by the work of Frances Fuller and others during the 1960s with…

One of the most widely used instruments for assessing concerns has been the Stages of Concern Questionnaire (SoCQ) developed by the Concerns Based Adoption Model Project. In this research, different aspects of the validity of a modified version of the SoCQ produced for use with preservice teachers (PSSoCQ) are examined. In all, 10 different…

As primary agents involved in reform and innovation in preparation programs, teacher educators require ongoing evaluation of the impacts of change. This paper reports a study to determine preservice teachers' concerns as they progressed through a traditional teacher preparation program and changes in their concerns that may have been attributed to…

A study examined the effects of instruction in the use of the Internet and prior computer experience on the concerns preservice teachers have about the use of technology in teaching. Subjects were 53 college sophomores, all elementary education majors and members of classes studying the foundations of reading. Participants were surveyed using the…

Discussion of integration of microcomputers into the elementary school curriculum emphasizes teacher training, and presents a multiple perspective model for designing computer education courses based on teacher concerns regarding innovations. Introductory courses for preservice teachers and graduate courses for inservice teachers are described.…