The Student Evaluation of Instruction (SEOI) was administered to all full-time and part-time faculty. Approximately 105,192 surveys were sent out in (5,726) envelopes; 77,886 surveys were returned to the Office of Institutional Research. The return rate for the SEOI packet envelopes was 96%. The response rate for the survey was 74%. The…

Online learning communities are an important means of sharing and creating knowledge. Online behaviors and online roles can reveal how online learning communities function. However, no study has elucidated the relationships among online behaviors, online roles, and online learning communities. In this study, 32 preservice teachers participated in…

A large scale observational study by educational psychologists of 141 UK primary classrooms used a partial interval time-sampling observational schedule to record the frequency and type of verbal behaviour of teachers and whether students were "on-task" (following the teacher's directions) or "off-task" (not following the…

Dealing with ethnic and linguistic diversity is one of the major challenges in today's education. Therefore, the formulation of competencies for teachers and teacher training should take into account the specific requirements of teaching in multicultural schools. In 2002, a series of small-scale studies were conducted to identify and formulate…

This article states that a study should be undertaken focusing on the ways that teachers justify their classroom actions. (RC)

The primary commitment to which the teacher should dedicate himself/herself is that of striving to be more humane. (RC)

Teacher behavior toward two different groups of target students was altered by presenting teachers with information about their previous interaction with the target children. Changes in specified teacher behavior toward target children were accompanied by many additional changes in unspecified teacher behavior toward both target and nontarget…

Investigation supported by U. S. Office of Education Contract, OEC-6-10-108.

This paper advocates the use of political power and collective bargaining by teachers to improve public education. The following are listed as reasons why collective bargaining has not been very successful: (a) collective bargaining was not designed to accommodate the needs and commitment of professional employees; (b) there is no national policy…

This report describes four experiments concerned with the effects of lecturer's degree of eye contact upon his teaching effectiveness, determined by the degree of audience retention of his message and by the audience's rating of the lecturer. In the first experiment, a male lecturer addressed small groups of female students in a laboratory…

Presents tips for the teacher on how to begin a new school year. (CM)

Values are essential for the improvement of instruction because values are the source of and support for teacher behavior and values bring consistency and commitment to that behavior. (Author/IRT)