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Peek, Patricia P. – 1985
The Mercer University field-based program in elementary education provides practical experience beginning in the junior year. The prospective teacher starts with observations in public school classrooms while enrolled in a foundations of education course. Opportunities to work directly with children commence in the second quarter of the junior…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Field Experience Programs, Graduate Surveys, Higher Education
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Bahr, Damon L.; Shaha, Steven H.; Farnsworth, Briant J. Lewis, Valerie K.; Benson, Linda F. – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2004
The research discussed in this manuscript was supported by a capacity building grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education as a "Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology Grant (PT3)". The problem was to determine the effect on teacher candidates of a field experience in which candidates used technology to support the teaching of a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Control Groups, Educational Technology, Technological Literacy
Usher, Brian R. – 1977
The Community Involvement Program (CIP) carried out in a grade 12 class in each of three Etobicoke secondary schools in the Province of Ontario was evaluated. The data analyses at the end of the first year of the program indicated that the CIP had achieved its major objectives of: (1) increased knowledge of community and social agencies; (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Services