This article assesses religion teaching as a profession in terms of selected characteristics that scholars agree are common to all professions. The characteristics that are addressed include essential service, call to serve, special knowledge and skills, specialized and advanced university training, public trust and status, code of ethics and…

Designed for integration into existing school curriculum, this is the first in a series of five career education curriculum kits for teachers of grades K-3. Each kit pertains to one of five specified career education program goals. The goal for this curriculum kit is, "Students will identify and develop attitudes about the world of work." For this…

Designed for integration into existing school curriculum, this is the second in a series of five career education curriculum kits for teachers of grades 4-8. Each kit pertains to one of five specified career education program goals. The goal for this curriculum kit is, "The student will acquire knowledge about the world of work." For this goal,…

Within a theoretical framework of role theory and systems theory, this study investigates differences in role expectations held for school psychologists in IGE schools by principals, unit leaders, teachers and school psychologists; and the relationship between agreement on expectations and ratings of the performance effectiveness of school…

This publication is the first product of a project to update and reorder the Science Syllabus for Middle and Junior High Schools in the state of New York. The performance objectives and criteria are provided in a general outline in the first section, which conforms to the content subdivisions in the three "processes" sections: (1) Living Things,…

This study investigated the effectiveness of teaching specific rather than global comprehension skills; the correlations among sex, intelligence level, and comprehension gain when taught global or specific comprehension skills; and the correlations between the factors of intelligence, comprehension, and vocabulary without regard for the teaching…

This study examined the effects of socio-economic status (SES) and categories of learning when holding ethnicity constant. Seventy-two subjects were randomly selected from two socioeconomic levels; 36 each from middle and low socioeconomic status. Fourth and fifth grade children were used. Three hypotheses were tested: (1) positive correlations…

An introductory theatre course at Prince George's Community College (Maryland), taught by a team of three instructors, makes use of contract grading to permit students to become actively involved in theatre on several levels of interest. This paper describes the course and provides a course syllabus, list of contract options for the course, and a…

This study attempts to analyze some aspects of open education by examining the effects of the teacher's authority style. This aspect of the structure of the school is examined in conjunction with certain status characteristics of the school population. The following variables are considered in the study: (1) community type; teacher race, sex,…

This paper describes a community college program for the disadvantaged student which uses retention of minority students as an evaluation tool. Organized as a separate unit but operating directly under the Academic Dean's office, the program at Central Florida Community College uses open-ended nonpunitive, humanistic instructional techniques,…

This book is primarily for teachers of physical education and specialists in the field of motor development. The popular emphasis on transforming knowledge into a practical form will be seen throughout this edition, especially in connection with skill analysis. At the end of each chapter, there are additional suggestions for analyzing motor…

This paper contains a description of the status of a project on student information processing responses that mediate teaching effects in classroom settings. The central activity of the project is the construction of a conceptual model that relates classroom task structures to student information processing and to subject-matter achievement. The…

Test takers' preferences for group versus individual administration of the Micro-TOWER System of Vocational Evaluation are reported. The system was administered to 211 clients at a vocational rehabilitation center, and consisted of work samples measuring the following job skills: record checking, filing, lamp assembly, message-taking, zip coding,…

This paper proposes and tests the theory that the "unidimensional" classroom structure is an underlying component of the traditional student performance reality which determines the relatively low school performance levels of ethnic minorities. It is argued that "multidimensional" structures should reduce the degree of…