Factors influencing academic achievement in a school or school system were examined, using data from studies of mathematics and science achievement of high school and college bound students in Australia. Two curricular factors, opportunity to learn and time spent in learning, were related to achievement. (GDC)

Non-verbal communication is an important part of the total communication process. It is important for counselors to be aware of their own pattern of non-verbal communication, as well as being alert to the silent messages being communicated by the client. (Author)

Consistent with the distinction between student ratings (ratings assigned) and class ratals (ratings received), various properties of the FACE Instrument scales were investigated. (RC)

Examines how pupils feel about school and teachers in an attempt to discover the appropriate directions of educational change. (Author/RK)

Results of exploratory research into learning contract planning at SUNY's Empire State College are described. A paradigm was designed for describing and analyzing conference between mentors and their students focusing on the functional tasks of contract planning and the decision-making process. Case materials are included. (Author/LBH)

Factor patterns obtained under three different sets of directions were compared. A sample of 414 graduate education students were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: administrator use, instructor use, and student use. The results indicated that the factors could not be considered invariant across the three conditions. (Editor/LBH)

A comprehensive questionnaire examines student perceptions of professors' knowledge of the subject, interest in subjects, interest in college students, inspiration and presenting material to meet students' interests. Analyses indicated students' sex, college status, college major, grade-point average, social class, and ethnicity had negligible…

This study was designed to investigate whether student ratings of a modular instruction program were related to the cognitive style, field dependence-independence, of the 85 rating students. It was found that on 14 of 28 course evaluation items student response differed by cognitive style. (Author)

Student rating of teachers in science, math, education, social sciences, humanities, and business were analyzed to determine teacher attributes which correlated with teaching effectiveness ratings. Results: knowing when students understood him, increasing students' appreciation of the subject, answering impromptu questions satisfactorily,…

Results of two experiments at the University of South Florida indicate that as grading practices are made less demanding, students learn less. They also suggest the possibility that the use of student-faculty evaluations influence the grading practices of instructors. (LBH)

An analysis of the effects of three kinds of teacher comment (social-comparison, subject-matter,and intraindividually oriented) accompanying grades in mathematics is presented. Subjects were 385 students from grades 6 through 10. In analyses of variance, an interaction between type of comment and the student's prior performance level was revealed…

Fifth-, seventh-, and ninth-grade students completed the Children's Intervention Rating Profile (CIRP) in response to eight teacher-initiated intervention methods designed to correct classroom behavior problems. A factorial analysis of variance indicated that students generally are able to differentiate between various methods of improving student…

A brief overview of how the School of Nursing at Ball State University successfully developed a merit and market system for allocation of salary increases is presented. A salary document developed includes: satisfactory standards, a market plan, a merit plan, and a procedure of implementation. (MLW)

Issues and developments in instructional development and evaluation are discussed including: a comprehensive system of instructional evaluation needs to be established with various components differentially weighted at the departmental level; student ratings should be only one of the components; instructional development consultants should provide…

An annotated bibliography on instructional evaluation and improvement is presented. The bibliography was compiled with an explicit bias toward the inclusion of articles that applied methodological techniques that are relatively uncommon in the instructional literature. (MLW)