The study of important concepts like academic accomplishment, locus of control, and self-esteem has long been a focus of intensive research in the discipline of educational psychology. The study looked into the connections between students' academic achievement, locus of control, and self-esteem at selected colleges in Greater Ada and Accra in…

This technical report is one of five publications from the larger study, "Teaching for a Changing World: The Graduates of Bank Street College of Education." This report documents the influence of Bank Street teacher preparation programs based upon surveys of graduates, surveys of comparison teachers, surveys of employers, and an analysis…

The Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC), founded in 1997, is dedicated to improving academic degree and certificate programs for professional educators--those who teach and lead in schools, pre-K through grade 12, and to assuring the public of their quality. TEAC accredits undergraduate and graduate programs, including alternate route…

The Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) "Guide to Accreditation" includes a full description of TEAC's principles and standards, the accreditation process and audit, and detailed instruction on writing the "Brief." This revision includes expanded information on (1) preparing an "Inquiry Brief Proposal" and the audit of the "Inquiry…

This workbook is about producing the "Inquiry Brief" or "Inquiry Brief Proposal" for TEAC (Teacher Education Accreditation Council) accreditation. It is designed as a companion to the TEAC "Guide to Accreditation." The exercises in this workbook are selected by the writing workshop presenters to help program faculty get started on their "Brief."…

The number of educational personnel prepared by institutions of the State University of New York and recommended to the New York State Education Department for educational certification during the period July 1, l968 through June 30, 1979, is summarized in statistical form. Detailed descriptions of the last three years are provided. (Editor/RJG)

This is a summary of the number of educational personnel prepared by institutions of the State University of New York and recommended by a state university institution to the State Education Department for Educational Certification. The period covered by this report is July 1, 1966, through June 30, 1975, with detailed descriptions of the latter…

As part of a regular evaluative follow-up of graduates from the education programs at Bowling Green State University, this collection of three booklets provides statistics on the responses of students who graduated between 1975 and 1980. The first booklet presents responses obtained from a total of 685 teachers who reflected upon the adequacy of…

The Task Force on School Health and Teacher Education presents a a report on the accomplishments of the objectives for which it was formed: (1) to develop a position statement on School Health and Teacher Education; (2) to identify states that incorporate health/health education as a requirement in their programs for the preparation of teachers;…

Legislation passed during the 2001 Iowa legislative session established the Student Achievement and Teacher Quality Program, Iowa Code Section 284.12(1). This legislation requires the Iowa Department of Education (DE) to annually report the statewide progress on the following: (1) Student achievement scores in mathematics and reading at the fourth…

Statistical tables in this summary report provide information on the following: (1) identification of numbers of students completing teacher education programs within the period September 1, 1989 through August 31, 1990; (2) new programs for the preparation of teachers initiated within the year, major revisions made to existing programs, and…

It has been documented that on the national level there are more teachers looking for jobs than there are positions available. According to a number of national surveys, the number of persons preparing to become teachers has decreased in recent years. A survey of Arkansas institutions of teacher education compared statistics of the number of…

Long distance education has been a part of instructional delivery for more than one hundred years. Beginning as correspondence study accompanying the establishment of national postal systems, distance education has undergone dramatic change fueled by the rapid and recent explosion of technology. This exponential growth in technology has provided…

In 1998, Congress reauthorized and amended the "Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA)", creating, under Title II, the Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants Program for States and Partnerships. One initiative under this amendment, the partnership grants program, funded partnerships among colleges of education, schools of arts and sciences, and…

While nearly all states now have something on their books labeled "alternate route to certification," these programs defy standard definition due to their enormous variability. States differ in the types of candidates allowed to apply (e.g., career changers or recent college graduates) and in the academic backgrounds these individuals must…