A continuing need for comprehensive and timely information about the public school teachers of the United States led the National Education Association (NEA) Research Division in 1956 to develop the first of a series of surveys and subsequent reports covering various aspects of teachers' professional, family, and civic lives. The NEA has conducted…

This study uses Early Childhood Longitudinal Study data to investigate the importance of three general aspects of teacher effects--teacher background qualifications, attitudes, and instructional practices--to reading and math achievement gains in first grade. The results indicate that compared with instructional practices, background…

Discussed some of the vast changes in the structure of English education that have taken place in the past few years. (Author/RK)

This study sought to determine the views of teachers in 40 school systems in the service area of Southeast Georgia (SEGA) on teaching as a career and a variety of educational reform issues. Specific questions addressed by the study were: (1) How do teachers in SEGA perceive the teaching profession as a career opportunity? (2) How do SEGA teachers…

The study compared knowledge of special education laws, policies, and procedures of various groups of 87 elementary and 33 middle school teachers (N=120). Ss were categorized by years of teaching experience, grade levels taught, subjects taught, and sources of information about P.L. 94-142, the Education For All Handicapped Children Act. An…

This article studies the employment rate of counselors without teaching experience as opposed to counselors with teaching experience and examines differences in their expressed counseling orientation. A questionnaire was mailed to currently-employed counselors, both former-teachers and non-teachers. Results indicate that teaching experience is not…

Since student teaching experience may shape greatly the prospective teacher's teaching attitude and confidence, the author raises questions about improved systems of evaluating and matching supervising teacher and student teacher on factors such as personality, attitude, background, and educational ideas. (EA)

A teacher is likely to encounter three kinds of difficulty with technical writing instruction. The first is transitory difficulty, which a teacher may reasonably expect to overcome with practice. This is the difficulty a teacher may have in learning a new curriculum or the needs of a new group of students, in making up and grading assignments, and…

THE GENERAL DESIGN OF THIS STUDY WAS TO (1) SELECT A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF ALL 1962 AND 1963 BACHELOR'S DEGREE GRADUATES FROM NORTH CAROLINA INSTITUTIONS WHO QUALIFIED FOR THE CLASS A TEACHER'S CERTIFICATE, (2) TO ANALYZE THEIR COLLEGIATE TRANSCRIPTS BY COURSE AREAS, AND (3) TO CORRELATE THEIR SCORES ATTAINED ON THE COMMON EXAMINATION OF THE…

Research was conducted to assess teacher attitudes towards genetic I.Q. and to ascertain the extent of the teachers' knowledge of their students' I.Q. scores. Teacher attitudes were assessed via a 20-item questionnaire administered to 225 private and public school teachers in the southeast and northeast. Findings revealed that private shcool…

This annotated bibliography is composed of 107 citations ranging in date from 1945 to 1964, but emphasizing the 1955 to 1964 period. It presents sources which describe various patterns of secondary reading programs with implications for related procedures and materials. Listings are arranged alphabetically according to author under the general…

Studied were the opinions o f elementary school teachers concerning science and science teaching in an attempt to provide insight into their reported reluctance to teach science. An opinionnaire was devised and tested in a pilot study. Three hundred thirty-five elementary teachers responded to the revised opinionnaire. The results of the analyses…

The Project PRIMES (Progress Research in Meeting Elementary Standards) system examines elementary schools in light of minimum standards set by the Ohio State Department of Education. This evaluation instrument is divided into five sections: (1) teacher strengths and weaknesses, (2) principal's strengths and weaknesses, (3) Instructional…

This report contains statistical information on: (1) demographic and background characteristics of American college and university faculty, by sex, 1969: (2) professional background and academic activity, by sex, 1969: (3) attitudes of college faculty toward education, faculty, and the profession, by sex, 1969: (4) faculty political preferences…