The background, skills, and views of 20 distinguished professionals were surveyed to provide information about career development in institutional research and to provide ideas about program development. The respondents were members of the Association for Institutional Research and they included seven institutional researchers and planners, three…

This report describes the conferences, local programs, and student experiences in year two of the Teaching and Learning in Graduate Geography (TLGG) project, a cooperative effort between university geography departments and the Association of American Geographers. The major purpose of the project was to demonstrate ways to incorporate teaching…

In an attempt to link public school expenditures to educational outputs, achievement test results of 6,605 elementary students in St. Louis, Missouri, were analyzed to see whether training and experience of teachers has an impact on student outcomes. The researchers matched individual students with teachers for five-year periods during grades…

This study proved an alternate secondary teacher education program at the University of Victoria to be a success. The most distinguishing characteristic of the program is that selected student teachers spend the entire school year situated in one of two secondary schools in the Saanich, British Columbia, school system. During this time students…

Questions most frequently asked about teacher centers are presented in a question-answer format. The rationale of teacher centers, their relationship to the school, and how they function are discussed. Also included in discussion are financing, staffing, governance, and planning. Three active teacher centers are described. (JD)

Described in this study is a two-year experimental program in teacher education which provided 14 student teachers with opportunity to experiment with the process of schooling and to learn from it. As a result, six community-based vacation schools were created. Specific sections of the book deal with: (1) the challenge of the times (late sixties)…

This program combines five distinct parts of the teacher training program into a unified experience for undergraduate social studies students. It offers some unique opportunities for ongoing involvement of university students in the improvement of their own instruction. Three academic courses in conjunction with an optional reading methods course…

The identification of teachers' subjective reports of stressors was investigated. Stress was defined as the teacher's subjective reception of demands from the environment. Teachers (N=53) were asked to list sources of stress and to respond to a questionnaire assessing teacher attitudes on corporal punishment and the stressful nature of teaching.…

A STUDY PROGRAM WAS DESIGNED TO CLARIFY THE DEFINITION OF THE TERM "EDUCATION" AND TO DEVELOP AN ORGANIZATIONAL PLAN WHICH COULD BE USED IN THE STUDY OF EDUCATION. THE OBJECTIVES WERE--(1) TO SEARCH OUT THE SIGNIFICANT PLANS, PAST AND PRESENT, EMPLOYED IN THE STUDY OF EDUCATION, (2) TO ESTABLISH THE PLACE OF SYSTEMATIZATION OF ACADEMIC…

Beliefs and judgment "policies" of student teachers, cooperating teachers, and college supervisors are examined. Results from a belief questionnaire and judgment task converged to indicate: (a) a large degree of shared belief and similarity in judgments of "good teaching" are present before student teaching begins, (b) institutional differences…

This study was designed to provide descriptions of employment histories experienced by graduates of five different student teaching programs. These field programs were regular, cluster, overseas, elementary interns, and competency based. Differences between these programs are identified and analyzed. Subjects of the survey were graduates of…

This statewide study involving 11 adult basic education centers in Illinois sought new information on the behavior of full time directors of adult basic education. The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) was administered to all teachers and administrators in the centers in response to these questions: "How does the director…

The hypothesis of this study was that community college teachers with prior high school experience assigned grades which produced higher grade distributions than those of teachers with prior four-year college teaching experience. In addition, prior community college teaching experience and length of current teaching experience were considered as…

This report is a compilation abstracted from an exhaustive investigation into three senior high schools. The areas of investigation cover the general learning environment, selected characteristics of a learning environment, achievement, cost, a summary of findings, and recommendations. Also included are a survey of student opinion, a study of…

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that there would be no significant differences between elementary school children who were taught math, reading, and language by several untrained teacher assistants using highly structured materials, and those children who were taught by professional experienced teachers using less structured…