Identifies the major arguments pro and con Performance Based Teacher Education and recommends that PBTE be considered as a process rather than a program and that its potential strengths and weaknesses be measured that light. (Author/DB)

Reviews literature regarding factors associated with children's initiation into smoking and examines efficacy of health education programs in preventing smoking in children. Though using peer leaders as health educators has been successful, parent-implemented health prevention programs aiming at children at younger ages may be more effective in…

Comments on a previous paper concerning Early Childhood Special Education in the year 2000 include the endorsement of a forecast that a new type of research will emerge for intervention procedures. Suggested is the progressive case study approach. (DB)

Presents a study that examined how college supervisors and student-intern teachers perceived 32 components of "help" during a supervised teaching process. Attempting to determine how supervisors facilitate student progress in teaching secondary social studies, the study identified components of help which were regarded as significant by each…

A California school district used the Hunter teaching model for a study to measure the effect of the model on teachers and students in two schools over a four-year period. Evaluation shows that student achievement and teacher behavior improved during the first three years then dropped during the fourth. (MD)

A structured academic support group for 21 high ability but underachieving undergraduate students resulted in improved study and self management skills, peer support, improvements in student grade point averages, and improved self concept scores. (Author/DB)

This study solicited opinions of teachers in a postgraduate teacher education program and teacher educators at the University of the West Indies (Barbados) on program effectiveness and the importance of specific teaching skills. Eighty-two teachers and 20 faculty members participated. Results are analyzed. (Author/MT)

Data have demonstrated effectiveness of Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT) alcohol education program. Examined two-year follow-up effects of TGT by comparing high school students who participated in TGT program to traditional and no instruction control groups. Results revealed that TGT students maintained previous positive changes whereas traditional…

The authors examine the effects of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program participation on post-program earnings. Results show that CETA participation had a significant negative effect on men's earnings and hours worked per week. However, the same experience had a positive effect on women's earnings and hours worked. (Author/CH)

Concludes that subjects in a clinic setting developed a variety of reading and writing strategies to enable them to succeed during their time at the clinic and that helped them maintain their processing--in spite of questionable teaching practices. (FL)

Suggests that if the Association for Business Communication does not adopt an aggressive posture and seek greater responsibility and accountability, then it will not meet the professional needs of many of its members. Outlines steps toward improving the effectiveness of the association. (SRT)

Examines a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed female adolescents (N=12) by comparing changes in personality as measured by objective tests and by a questionnaire sent to former residents after release. Responses indicated that the girls were doing well and showed significant personality improvement. (JAC)

This study compared 46 teachers who were trained in and implemented mastery learning techniques with 50 similar teachers who were not trained to see if mastery learning changed the explanations they offered for their effectiveness. The results are set forth and implications for staff development are drawn. (Author/MT)

This document consists of the single 2002 issue of The Bernard van Leer Foundation's "Early Childhood Matters," a periodical addressed to practitioners in the field of early childhood education and including information on projects funded by the Foundation. Articles in this issue focus on early childhood development tracer studies of…