The 1993 Survey of Science and Mathematics Education, involving a national probability sample of 1,250 U.S. schools and 6,000 teachers, probed the status of science and mathematics education as they relate to National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the National Research Council's standards. Although teachers reported instructional…

Describes a way to give word-processed feedback on business communication assignments. Describes some advantages of this mode over both handwritten and audio comments, and identifies limitations of this method. (SR)

Examines a curious incident of racial tension in which an Asian teacher's approach to teaching writing became a subject of heated debate among white and black students. Probes the causes of tension within the class. (TB)

Describes incidents in which nursing students' anger led to disruptive behavior and violence. Suggests ways in which faculty can handle situations when they are the target of student anger, when they are angry at students, when they are mediating conflict between others, and when they suspect a student could be violent. (Contains 32 references.)…

Examined the comparative effectiveness of two forms of feedback, instructor delivered corrective feedback and a Web-based model comparison feedback, on two complex tasks in a university setting. Results showed student performance was significantly better on the criterion task when they received instructor delivered corrective feedback. (Author/LRW)

As preparation for restructuring in Memphis, the jurisdiction coordinator and design teams conducted pre-implementation professional development experiences. Describes teachers' perceptions of these efforts and initial reactions to their school's program choice. The 503 teachers surveyed enjoyed specific aspects of the training sessions and…

Based on a case study of two elementary teachers, this article describes a conceptual framework for teacher/facilitator collaboration that accounts for individual teachers' stages of development and their stages of concern for adopting an innovation. Teachers passed through a certain sequence of stages, but their movement was not always linear.…

Examines the relation between teacher attributions of student school failure and teacher behavior toward the failing student. Results found that teachers tend to behave in ways that indicate more pity and less anger when they attribute a student's low achievement to her or his low abilities, whereas they express more anger when attributing low…

Explores the inescapable, irreconcilable role of virtue in rhetoric and writing instruction and the (im)possibilities of ethical response to student writing. Considers the place of values instruction in contemporary education by examining its historical precedents in classical rhetoric and its relationship to the liberatory, multicultural mission…

Teachers in three day care programs completed temperament questionnaires and behavior problem checklists for 133 preschoolers. Results indicated that correlations between temperament and behavior problem variables were generally higher for boys than for girls. (BG)

Teachers generally feel that the evaluation models surfacing in response to state and national mandates are monistic, mechanistic, and inappropriate. Based on North Carolina's experience with the Teacher Performance Appraisal Instrument, an alternative instrument comparing teachers' suppositional and propositional pedagogical styles was created.…

Results are reported from a study which found that specific verbal praise was effective in reducing off-task behavior of second grade students (N=3) in physical education. (IAH)

Examines how a teacher of a developmental writing course and a student who was a Vietnam War veteran organized ideas for an essay. Describes how the teacher composed a poem based on the student's experiences and shared it with him. (KEH)

Surveys 776 K-12 students from a rural Indiana school district, using various personal-attribute and personal-history inventories, to see whether students' self-concept scores correlated with their teachers' ratings of students' at-risk behaviors on the Potential Dropout Checklist. Although the personal-attribute inventories across all grade…

Summarizes survey responses of 92 mentor teachers. Among respondents' 210 comments, 103 (49%) focus on the mentoring role and 107 (50.9%) relate to perceived obstacles to effective mentoring. Respondents often doubted their mentoring qualifications and voiced concerns about time, pairing methods, beginning teachers' receptiveness, and limited…