This study consisted of a poll of junior college administrators, responsible for the employment of their instructional staff, to determine if they felt the Doctor of Arts degree would satisfy the academic needs of the junior college instructor. A 17-item questionnaire was mailed to 107 public tax-supported junior colleges within the Southern…

This study discusses faculty attitudes toward collective bargaining, including collective negotiations, sanctions, and withholding of faculty services. The purpose was to determine whether faculty members' perceptions of their capacities for power and mobility were related to their expression of relatively favorable or unfavorable attitudes toward…

This study was conducted to show how a teacher's training affects his or her attitudes toward teaching. Twelve statements dealing with various aspects of education in relation to subject and student oriented instruction were distributed to 15 traditionally prepared teachers and 15 Teacher Corps prepared teachers. Each participant indicated in…

This paper summarizes teacher competencies in reading instruction, as defined in methods textbooks, curriculum guides, and reports by Harold A. Anderson, Robert L. Hillerich, Emma W. Rembert, the Illinois State University Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and the International Reading Association (IRA). Discussion focuses on four areas of…

While there has been a great deal of change in Australian education, little is known of the attitudes of Australian teachers towards education. This paper draws on the research and scale development of Kerlinger (1959) in the United States to analyze the attitudes of a sample of Australian teachers, and the relationships between those attitudes…

Of nine background variables and six attitude variables, the four which had a high correlation with job satisfaction for engineering teachers in India and which distinguished between satisfied and dissatisfied groups were research involvement, research output, permanence of career plan, and time satisfied. (Editor/JT)

Notes that these four British women all know that the school is no longer just an institution where children are taught simple literacy and the ability to add and subtract. They believe that social conditions of our times demand that the schoolhouse be an integral part of life. (Author/AM)

Discusses a study designed to determine existing trends in the backgrounds and qualifications of public relations instructors and how these might affect public relations education. Available from: Public Relations Review, Ray Hiebert, Dean, College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. (MH)

Reports on a study by Purdue University's Office of Continuing Education on the status of professional staff development. The study focused on professional development reading and other development activities undertaken by staff and asked for potential topics for staff development. (CH)

Regular kindergarten to grade 2 teachers (N=77) from the Montreal area completed a questionnaire on academic background in special education, special education teaching experience, and willingness to integrate a mentally handicapped child into the regular classroom. Only academic background in special education correlated with willingness to…

Describes New Jersey's alternate route to teacher certification, designed to attract good teachers with practical experience in such fields as vocational education. This provisional teacher program is composed of three phases: (1) certification, (2) placement, and (3) training. (CH)

Reports on a study of the distinguishing characteristics of two-year college history instructors in the South, focusing on personal, teaching, professional activities, and job mobility information. Offers a profile of the typical history instructor. (DMM)

Investigated relationships between teacher sense of efficacy, superintendents' ratings of teacher competency, and selected demographic and background variables in 155 teachers. Using discriminant analysis, superior and average competency teachers could be differentiated from low competency teachers on four significant variables, one of which was…

Two social studies educators talk about the roots of their professional commitment, teachers who influenced them, politics, and social studies education. (RM)

Through systematic classroom observation of 71 student teachers and first-year teachers, 1,346 teaching behaviors were observed, with teachers describing their perception of the origin of each behavior. Results suggest that teachers rely as heavily on their own ideas as on their formal training. Possible explanations are discussed. (MT)