For the last three decades, the remarkable practice of inclusive education has been supported and carried out in many countries across the world. Belize however, continues to face many challenges in implementing inclusive education, making the process very slow in its development. The aim of this qualitative systematic review was to determine the…

Word analysis, study skills, and reading comprehension were assessed for 217 certificated teachers in 14 Utah schools. No significant differences were found among the scores of elementary school principals, special education and resource teachers, early-childhood grade teachers, and intermediate grade teachers. The effects of selected variables…

The major purposes of the study were to describe the attitudes held by occupational orientation teachers toward career education/occupational orientation and to determine what personal, experience, training, and teaching behavior variables contributed to high positive attitudes. Also included was an investigation of differences in the frequency of…

The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of secondary science teachers toward inquiry teaching strategy and to identify characteristics common to teachers expressing favorable attitudes toward this concept. Two instruments were developed to conduct this study. The Inquiry Science Teaching Strategy (ISTS), a Likert-type summated…

This research finds that teacher effort in reading instruction is associated with student achievement in the primary and middle grades. Teachers who exert a greater amount of effort on the job in reading produce higher reading achievement scores in their classes at both the primary and middle-school level as measured by the Stanford Achievement…

In this survey-based study, an attempt was made to trace changes in the characteristics of newly-employed, full-time faculty in public California community colleges over a seven-year period. Demographic data, including age, sex, residence, highest degree held, and most recent professional experience of new faculty were collected from all public…

The author attempted to find predictor variables related to secondary school science teachers who favor the use of innovative science curricula and to find such variables as related to the teachers' understanding of science processes. Data were available from 183 usable inventory-questionnaires out of 184 returned. Data were also obtained from 13…

The purpose of this investigation was to identify and describe what might be considered as a high level inquiry type science teacher. The instruments used included: (1) Science Teaching Checklist, (2) Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, (3) Rokeach Form E Dogmatism Scale, (4) Torrance Figural Test of Creativity, and (5) Science Teaching Assessment Test.…

To gain insight into the evaluation of college freshman compositions, a study explored the relationship between the personality type of the instructor and the grades assigned to essays written by freshman composition students. The sample comprised 23 college instructors who answered a short questionnaire, graded the same expository essay, and…

This study was primarily concerned with the status of biology education in a select sample of public high schools in the state of Mississippi and how that status related to selected aspects of the status of biology education in the nation as a whole and to certain recommendations of authorities in the field for an optimal biology program. The…

This study provides a description of personal and professional characteristics of secondary school science teachers who have participated in an Academic Year Institute (AYI) program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Pre-institute participant characteristics were determined from application forms, while the post-institute…

The purpose of this study was to compare selected Wisconsin secondary schools having high percent enrollments in physics with those having low percent enrollments in physics in terms of certain identified school, teacher, and student characteristics. Selected for the study were 17 schools considered to have a high percent enrollment in physics (25…

This study focused on factors which had helped attract faculty members to science teaching careers in 34 public and 33 private predominantly Negro colleges. A questionnaire was mailed to 485 teachers, 78 percent of whom responded. The data were organized for further analysis according to: (1) private-public college affiliation, (2) racial origin,…

This study surveyed the teaching practices of instructors of grade six language arts in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Teacher characteristics of (sex, number of university courses in language arts, length of teaching experience, and number of language arts inservice courses) were correlated with the frequency of use of selected teaching practices. One…

This study involved an inservice education program designed to enhance teacher behavior in the use of Science - A Process Approach. The major method of gaining information on teacher behavior was direct observation and involved the development and utilization of a Classroom Observation Rating Form (CORF). Twenty-three elementary teachers comprised…