Research shows that student motivation and performance improves when instruction is adapted to student learning preferences and styles. Educators have a responsibility to understand the diversity of their students and to present information in a variety of ways in order to accommodate all learners' preferences. Several learning styles theories…

Based on a review of American literature and interviews with Chinese elementary mathematics teachers, a survey of elementary mathematics teachers' beliefs about mathematics and mathematics teaching was developed. The responses of 66 American and 92 Chinese elementary mathematics teachers were examined. Significant group differences were found in…

The dual purposes of this study were to examine teachers' experiences with and perceptions of Mosston's Spectrum of Teaching Styles and to compare and contrast teachers' and students' perceptions of and experiences with the spectrum. A teaching styles survey instrument was also validated in this study. Participants were 212 physical education…

The relationship between a skills and humanistic-custodialistic orientation to instruction and the change in this relationship during a student teaching experience were investigated. Two instruments, one measuring skills orientation and the other measuring humanism-custodialism (Pupil Control Ideology), were given to a group of Social Studies…

This study of six departments at the University of California at Davis indicates that the primary difference between faculty who have a high level of interaction with students and those who do not is one of style. (Author)

Presents several models to describe the instructional approaches adopted by many teachers, and analyzes the roles of the teacher and students that seem to be implicit in each model. (JR)

This article describes in detail how the inquiry teacher performs in the classroom and what the possible alternatives in the process are. The major goal is to clarify the components of inquiry teaching and to indicate the exact junctures where major decisions need to be made. The operations subsumed under instructional decision are spelled out and…

Article evaluated the influence of cooperating teachers on student teacher behavior and presented a conceptual systems manual containing teacher's oral communications. (RK)

While the Bedouin children's perceptual exploration might be considered less mature in some ways related to reading, this was not the case with other aspects of perceptual exploration. (DM)

Analysis of the data from a survey of members of a university faculty and of student attitudes toward this faculty indicate no relationship between student-rated adequacy of teaching and the extent of a teacher's scholarly activity. Instead, student criteria consisted largely of evaluations of the instructor's style. (Author)

The author examines the traditional discomfort of conservative teachers and comfort of liberal teachers with the Oliver-Shaver public issues rationale. He predicts that as students move more to the political left, conservative and liberal teachers will enjoy a closer alliance in their attitudes toward the above rationale. (JB)

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to determine which of several varying patterns of teaching was best for the achievement of the slow learner in a high school biology course (LC)