A questionnaire containing a teacher-efficacy scale, a hypothetical case report, and questions about teacher background was completed by 116 certified teachers of students with visual impairments. The study found that a teacher's current job placement (whether in a local or special school) was the most distinctive teacher variable affecting the…

Investigates the relationship between a beginning elementary school teacher's beliefs and mathematics-teaching practices. Results indicate that the teacher's practice was more closely related to beliefs about mathematics content rather than beliefs about mathematics pedagogy. Beliefs about mathematics content were highly influenced by personal…

Background/Context: In this article, we trace the development of a prospective secondary science teacher as she begins to examine her identity as a White person. We explore how the social languages of her teacher education program challenge, intermingle, and blend with ones she brought to the program from her midwestern small-town childhood and a…

The biographical and educational backgrounds, the teaching careers, and classroom performances of nine professors who had won teaching awards were studied, based on interviews and classroom observation. Five of the professors were male, four were female, and they ranged in age from the early forties to late sixties. Six had doctorates and three…

Reports on the status of physics teaching in Montana in 1972-73, compares the results to 1958 and 1959 status studies to determine the effect of past attempts at change, and makes comparisons to recent findings in Wisconsin and New England. (Author/GS)

Data are presented from a study made, 1972-73, using a direct-mail questionnaire. Seventy-nine percent return was indicated. Found that most teachers needed background improvement, that facilities and materials were not considered adequate and that enrollment has increased greatly from 1961 to 1972. (EB)

The purpose of a study was to determine the demographics of the Diversified Technology (DT) program, its acceptance, and implementation in Mississippi. The DT program is a 2-year program to prepare 11th- and 12th-graders to go into postsecondary programs in technical areas such as hydraulics, robotics, lasers, and computer-aided design. At the…

A study in Columbia, Missouri, revealed that many teacher and student background characteristics correlated weakly but significantly with teachers' perceptions of the frequency of discipline infractions and the effectiveness of disciplinary techniques. The data (derived from school records and from a questionnaire to which 162 elementary teachers…

This paper presents a rationale for using a biographical approach in understanding how teachers think and act and how they have come to think and act in the way they do. This approach is seen as being able to provide a fundamental understanding of the teacher's perspective. Understanding how teachers individually and collectively think, act,…

Based on responses to a state survey, 173 public elementary schools of Dade County, Florida, were divided into three groups: those who had no instructional microcomputers; those who had them, but did not offer courses in programming; and those who had them and also offered programming. Aggregate measures of faculty characteristics (level of…

A New York City school superintendent is accused of pushing white educators out of the schools by harassment and intimidation and then filling their jobs on the grounds of ethnic group. (Author/WM)

The research methodology and findings of a statewide survey designed to determine the specific competencies deemed essential by reading professionals are detailed in this report. Specific information supplied in the report includes (1) a description of the model for developing competencies for reading teachers, (2) the limitations of the study,…

To provide a basis for implementing the objectives of the Maine State Plan for Career Education, a study was conducted to determine Maine's teacher-perceived career education needs. The basic method used was a mailed questionnaire (appended) designed to assess public school teachers in terms of (1) their knowledge of career education; (2) their…

IN 1962-63, A SURVEY COMPARED THE QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS OF NORTH CAROLINA JUNIOR COLLEGE TEACHERS WITH THOSE OF TEACHERS IN FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORE CLASSES IN 4-YEAR INSTITUTIONS. OF THE 1,119 TEACHERS IN 24 SCHOOLS, WHO RECEIVED QUESTIONNAIRES, 861 (76.9) REPLIED. JUNIOR COLLEGE TEACHERS HELD FEWER ADVANCED DEGREES AND HAD LESS…

Video tapes of student teachers micro-teaching in a high school biology class were analyzed. Attention was focussed on students' interpretations of data and the teacher's responses to these interpretations. Examples are given of student explanations which teachers find unsatisfactory but which are valid alternatives based on the data available to…