This study determines the preference of professional school faculty for associative, replicative, interpretive, and applicative uses of knowledge, and it compares those preferences to those expressed by arts and science faculty. Relationships of use of knowledge preferences to curriculum and instruction decisions are shown. Faculty from four…

In 1988, the Johns Hopkins Center for Research on Elementary and Middle Schools conducted a survey of over 1,700 middle school principals. This survey was part of an effort to analyze the content and skills that middle grades students are taught, the instructional methods through which they are taught, and the influences of school, community, and…