A perspective for analyzing and interpreting data collected on reading teachers by the Educational Testing Service at the request of the Data Analysis Committee of the International Reading Association is presented in this manuscript. Increasingly, the teacher variable in reading instruction has become a topic of investigation. The author suggests…

This study examines the effect of teacher inservice training and knowledge of research upon teacher perceptions of spelling procedures and practices, and upon the spelling achievement of students. Involved in the study were 70 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade teachers in twelve elementary schools in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and their 1493 students. Among…

To examine the factors that operate in the hiring of faculty by community colleges, an experiment was conducted at the peak of the 1971 job rush by three graduating job seekers who were interested in the developmental student and the community college concept. One job seeker was a BS candidate from a predominantly black college; one was a MA…

The purpose of the study was to provide data and interpretations to help policy makers of the Appalachian Regional Commission in improving the quality and quantity of teachers in Appalachia. Questionnaires were sent to a 20% random stratified sample of approximately 162,000 teachers in the Appalachian portions of 11 states: Alabama, Kentucky,…

Introducing the reasons for the survey with a quotation from the Committee for Economic Development's "Economic Education in the School," 1961, this report provides a narrative and tabular summary of two questionnaires administered to elementary and secondary (7-12) social studies teachers in the PROBE area. One generalization from the…

This study proposed to analyze the teaching of grammar nationally in grades three through eight by a qualitative analysis of textbooks used and a questionnaire survey of actual teaching practices, policies, and procedures. The textbooks were analyzed for their approaches to sentences, parts of speech, and word usage; their page allotments to…

This report explains a system for rapidly training beginning students in the technical aspects of playing a stringed instrument. The program also affords them a well-rounded, basic knowledge of music. A "numerical" method of notation and concentrated muscular exercises greatly speeded the technical learning process. The daily…

In an effort to provide services to the teaching of precollege psychology, the Oklahoma State Psychological Association sponsored a survey of state high schools. Of the 478 questionnaires initiated in November, 1972, 209 (43%) were returned by February 1973. The returns revealed that 112 high schools had a psychology program at the time of the…

This study examined the science curricula of approximately 900 public secondary schools, as well as the possible relationship of attendance at National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored teacher-training institutes, on selected science teacher factors and teaching practices. A unique stratified random ssmpling procedure, as well as the…

To determine technical instructors' attitudes regarding their educational tasks, this study analyzed their backgrounds, as well as their perceptions of their tasks and needs. A questionnaire mailed to 530 postsecondary technical instructors in Ohio resulted in nearly 400 usable responses. The respondents were classified by technology groups, and…

Since every teacher is a teacher of reading, several skills and understandings should be a part of every beginning content teacher's preservice training. A secondary teacher's reading background should include a knowledge of a general theory of reading, an overview of basic reading skills, training in book-reading skills, training in the…

This book brings together two approaches to the study of physical education in England: (1) a descriptive analysis of the existing physical education curriculum in schools and colleges; and (2) an examination of research evidence concerning the behavior of the physical education teacher. The two approaches are brought together in a short…

The author discusses research on the Australian Science Education Project in its first year of availability, 1974, and the social origins of student teachers in Victoria, Australia. (RK)

It was hypothesized that prospective foreign language teachers would profess significantly more positive attitudes toward American English dialect differences than would prospective teachers of other subjects (English, mathematics, and social studies). The interaction of teacher attitudes and experience abroad, university attended, and urban…

In a study on the professionalization of adult education in Germany, the backgrounds of entrants to the profession and the need for training curricula appropriate to their working situations are examined. It was concluded that special inservice training courses in adult education should be offered in addition to subject-related and other…