This paper examines the attitudes of student teachers in social studies towards an educational research assignment, undertaken in an educational research methods course given at the Fatih Faculty of Education at Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey. A questionnaire containing open-ended questions and an interview were used in the data-collection…

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to analyze enabling factors in the technology integration change process in a multi-section science methods course, SCIED 408 (pseudonym), from 1997 to 2003 at a large northeastern university in the United States. We used two major data collection methods, in-depth interviewing and document reviews.…

If issues in the history and philosophy of science and those related to science, technology and society are generally accepted in policy, how ought these be handled in practice? Mandate in policy does not guarantee implementation in practice. Indeed, HPS and STS have for decades been marginalized in the curriculum. Subject areas designated to…

Black-oriented radio stations are a valuable resource for the white teacher needing familiarity with Black idioms. (JH)

Instructional models are distinct sets of sequenced teaching actions created to promote student achievement of selected learning outcomes. They identify: (1) the type of information to be presented to students; (2) the sequence in which it should be presented; (3) the teaching tactics that stimulate necessary cognitive learning processes; and (4)…

Investigated was the validity and reliability of a self-evaluation instrument. Two samples, totaling 104 students, were drawn from a population of prospective elementary teachers at Colorado State College. One sample was taught by the lecture method, the other by a non-lecture method. The self-evaluation instrument (SEA) was administered at the…

The impact of feedback and the effect of practice with either children or with peers on student teacher's attainment of specific teaching competencies were examined. The specific competencies were identified as maintaining teacher-pupil interaction, developing teacher-pupil repport, pacing the lesson, clarity of presentation, and the use of…

An experimental course was conducted to test three products that may be included in the Systematic Teacher Training Model being developed by the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching Program on Teaching Effectiveness. The subjects were 14 intern teachers enrolled in the Stanford Secondary Teacher Education Program, the interns'…

This publication for methods instructors contains articles dealing with science education in elementary schools. Titles of articles appearing in this issue are: The Unit Box Approach, Let's Take Science Out of the Mouths of the Teacher and Put It into the Hands of the Child, Environmental Education and the Inservice Teacher, A Comparison of Two…

Research was undertaken to compare the attitudes toward instructional media of seconeary education majors who took a full course in media with those of comparable students who received an introduction to media as part of a general methods course. Based on the previous findings that improved attitude led to improved and more effective utilization,…

The Experimental Student Teaching/Differentiated Staffing Program involved hiring selected elementary education students in their senior year as half-day teacher aides for the full public school year. Within this program, teaching methods courses were conducted at the site by university personnel on selected afternoons during the fall semester;…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between a laboratory-content-oriented secondary science methods course and the development of selected teaching competencies by pre-service secondary science student teachers. A sample of five student teachers were selected for study during their student teaching experience. Several…

Dimensions of personality and value structure were related to preferences for field activities among preservice teachers. These dimensions included authoritarianism; traditionalism of educational views; progressivism of educational views; child centeredness; institutional centeredness; situational knowledge of practical wisdom in teaching; and…

The Partnership in the Education of Teachers (PET), a cooperative venture between Southeastern State College and Colbert, a small disadvantaged rural school, was initiated to revitalize the college elementary teacher training program through earlier field experiences for students; on-the-spot observation, teaching, and consulting by the college…