Advances four hypotheses as to why a student requested to be absent during a discussion of Anne Sexton's poem sequence "The Jesus Papers," which the student thought to be offensive. Suggests that English teachers lack a working consensus as to what kind of space the literature classroom is and what they should be trying to accomplish…

Measures service quality from the viewpoint of customers (students at an Australian university), using the SERVQUAL model. Obtains evaluations of academic and administrative aspects of the educational service. Makes significant negative evaluations of administrative service quality (resulting from communication problems). Satisfaction with the…

Representatives of 23 institutions report that they are incorporating cohorts in their school administrator preparation programs. Students typically report a sense of belonging and social bonding, new collaboration and networking opportunities, enhanced professional confidence, and a strengthened ability to reflect on practice. Liabilities include…

Tells the story of how two new English education professors attempted to introduce alternative methods of writing assessment to their education students. Explains the beliefs the professors brought to the experience and how these beliefs were altered by the resistance the professors encountered from their students. (TB)

Reports on a study of 14-15 year old students' ideas about combustion. Describes patterns of students' explanations across a range of questions and analyzes them to gain insight into both the degree of consistency of their explanations and how this may affect the process of conceptual change in the students. (Contains 35 references.) (Author/YDS)

Examines the relationship between gendered personality dispositions and two aspects of gender role attitudes (occupational sex typing and gender role stereotypes). Indicates that gendered personality disposition affects occupational sex typing, whereas gender has the strongest effect on stereotypes of gender roles in the family and society.…

Describes the use of daily essay quizzes to encourage thorough preparation for class and higher level thinking. Explains a study assessing student reaction to daily quizzes, which compared anonymous student questionnaire responses from two classes: (1) a test-based class and (2) a daily quiz-based class. (CMK)

Describes an activity for use in an introductory psychology course in which students collaborate and apply their neuroanatomy knowledge to three case studies. Provides a table with descriptions of and possible answers for the three case studies and discusses the students' responses. (CMK)

Explores classroom extensions of job enrichment theory by administering a modified Job Diagnostic Survey, a widely employed organizational research tool that assesses each core job characteristic, to 217 psychology students along with outcome scales assessing their course motivation, satisfaction, performance, absenteeism, interest, and desire to…

Examines the determinants of class-specific academic cheating on examinations, class-to-class differences in the severity of the cheating problem across 12 principles of economics classes, whether control measures are effective, and the relative effectiveness of deterrent measures. Considers methods for gathering data on cheating. (CMK)

Describes an activity for introductory research methods in which students form a hypothesis regarding a personality difference between Captain Kirk from the original "Star Trek" and Captain Picard from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and then empirically test the hypothesis by observation of operationally defined behaviors.…

Examines (1) the social motives and factors prompting students in Russia to attend technical colleges and universities and (2) the functional relation to students' national-ethinc affiliation. Uses survey results of a representative sample of students at technical colleges and universities in the Republic of Bashkortostan. (CMK)

Considers how teaching John Updike's short story "A & P" to treat issues of class and gender provides practice in reading for multiple meanings. Discusses students' responses to the character "Sammy" and considers issues from personal response to reading the text. Notes multiple perspectives and ways of teaching "A & P." (SC)

Examines the results of interviews with elementary school children that gauged the attitudes towards and reasons for a partial separation by gender. Proposes an occassional separation of girls and boys for special pedogogical intervention. Discusses the findings. (CMK)

Four experiments with 4th, 5th, and 6th graders addressed conceptual change in response to anomalous data about empirical regularities in science. Impedance to conceptual change in response to anomalous data could potentially occur at any of four cognitive processes: observation, interpretation, generalization, or retention. In the four…