This technical report is designed to provide researchers with an overview of the design and implementation of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2013. This information is meant to supplement that presented in OECD publications by describing those aspects of TALIS 2013 that are unique to the United States. Chapter 2 provides…

The 2012 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education was designed to provide up-to-date information and to identify trends in the areas of teacher background and experience, curriculum and instruction, and the availability and use of instructional resources. This compendium, one of a series, details the results of a survey of high school…

The 2012 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education was designed to provide up-to-date information and to identify trends in the areas of teacher background and experience, curriculum and instruction, and the availability and use of instructional resources. This compendium, one of a series, details the results of a survey of high school…

The purpose of the current research has been to establish the factorial validity and reliability of the Work Components Study in the public school system. (Author/RK)

Recruiting and retaining teachers is a nationwide issue for schools in all locales. For rural schools, however, lower salaries, small school sizes, and geographic isolation can make it even more difficult to recruit and retain a qualified teaching staff. This study sought to quantify and characterize differences in recruiting teachers between…

This paper had three aims: 1, to make more widely known two methods of assessing recognition, one based on ranking and the other on rating, 2, to describe three experiments comparing the two methods, and 3, to give a preliminary account of the results of some theoretical calculations. (Author/RK)

To a small degree, team teachers express more satisfaction with their work than do traditional teachers. (CK)

Article provided the school administrator with an evaluation of findings concerning the level of teacher participation in decisions in his organizational unit and listed some steps for using such data. (Author/RK)

The aim of this article is to give some basic information on the IEA survey in science, reading comprehension and literature so that the scene is set for the reader to understand the terminology and procedures reported in the articles which follow. (Author)

To test a theory that selective attention to threatening stimuli induces paranoia, an attempt was made to manipulate attention to threatening and nonthreatening statements among college students and examine the effects on three indices of paranoia. (Editor)

The present study provides evidence that there are differences in judged desirability between mentioning hygiene factors and talking about motivators. (Author)

This survey, conducted in May 1973, was designed to clarify the opinions of various section of the educational community - students, parents, teachers, administrators, other staff members - as to what is or is not important and what is or is not perceived as being done. (Author)

The present paper reported on a study designed to test two null hypothesis, first, the prediction that there was no difference in attitudes held by heterosexually and homosexually oriented males, second, there would be no difference in attitudes held by covert and overt male homosexuals. (Author/RK)

The relation in schoolchildren of duty and efficacy to trust is the principal topic of this study. (Author/RK)