Cuyahoga Community College--Eastern Campus is attempting to devise an organizational structure which facilitates an open, creative environment, and to select faculty who have attitudes consonant with openness and experimentalism. The purpose of this study was to determine if there were relationships between (1) dogmatism of faculty and their…

This study was intended as a follow-up evaluation of Project COPE, a Glassboro State College program designed to provide junior year elementary education students experience in teaching culturally disadvantaged children, and to motivate them to continue this type of teaching after graduation. The procedure involved testing and collecting survey…

To aid in providing remediation for the language and cognitive skills of disadvantaged children, the UCLA Head Start Research and Evaluation Center compared three language programs: the UCLA Preschool Language Program, the Behavioral Research Laboratories' Readiness for Language Arts Program, and an unstructured Placebo Program. Each of the…

This study posed the following questions: (1) Do English teachers have theories of language? (2) If so, what is the nature and strength of those theories? (3) How are the factors of education, experience, professional affiliation and teaching situation related to the presence of such theories? (4) What implications do the answers to these…

This paper presents a general model for restructuring teacher education programs in order that they might more adequately fulfill what the planners consider to be the essential goal of teacher education--i.e., the production of "teachers who are self-actualizing, integrated persons, fully capable of functioning within the evolving institution of…

To determine the professional preparation and experience of instructors hired by community junior colleges and technical institutions during the 1972 to 1974 academic years, questionnaires were sent to 100 junior colleges and technical institutions representing all 50 states. A total of 83 colleges and institutions from 43 states responded, of…

The field experience component of the competency-based elementary teacher preparation sequence that was developed at the University of Toledo as part of the Ohio Model consists of two learning modules: a) planning, implementation, and evaluation; and b) gaining acceptance and respect as a member of the multiunit school. The first module is…

This document on the value of field experience for preservice teachers is based on a course and an experiment conducted at the University of Maryland in which blocks of a methods course were devoted to elementary school classroom experience. It is reported that school visits progressively involved observation lesson presentation, and general…

These revisions arose from two major concerns: the lack of quality education evidence among many low-income, minority group children living in urban settings and the ambiguity concerning the nature and extent of relationships between teacher training efforts and a child's learning. This proposal examines the possible relationships between…

This survey, prepared in 1967 from the results of a questionnaire developed by the Washington Foreign Language Program, examines questions directly related to language teachers' backgrounds and teaching assignments and indicates their degree of agreement with a number of opinions frequently voiced by foreign language teachers. Somr 496 language…

To determine the effects of administrator expectation, school social class, and teacher experience on the quality of curricula developed by teachers at the local level in small planning groups, two levels of administrative expectation and two levels of school social class were simulated in a 2 x 2 design. Twenty-seven groups of three secondary…

To predict the educational quality of programs in 150 school districts, this study used 34 predictor variables in a multiple regression analysis. Dependent variables used to represent educational quality in a district were (1) the percent of rejections by the local Selective Service Boards for mental reasons, (2) the percent of elementary and…

The Field Studies Program in Elementary Education is the 1973 Distinguished Achievement Award Entry from Lowell State College, Lowell, Massachusetts. This master's degree training program for experienced and inexperienced teachers focuses on the following objectives: a) the coordination of innovative educational programs in public and parochial…

This report describes a study designed to identify the informational and procedural items that school administrators believe to be useful in the selection of teachers for public school systems. The subjects for the study consisted of a panel of 11 personnel administration experts and 66 Louisiana public school personnel directors. A questionnaire…

Socialization is a part of teacher education, and discussion of the phenomena involves the ethical consequences of teacher education programs on the system of thoughts and actions of the students. The institutional structures and the individuals interact. As student teachers participate in the daily activities and events of preparation, they…