A study examined issues of teacher professionalization within adult literacy education. Relevant research and theory on professionalization were reviewed, the historical experiences of other professional fields were examined, data on state certification requirements for adult basic education (ABE) teachers were analyzed, officials from states…

A survey examined attitudes toward internally generated school priorities among 29 elementary school teachers, 1 principal, and 278 parents in a small rural Wisconsin school district. Respondents comprised all educators in the district's only elementary school and the parents of 85 percent of the school's students. The 26-item survey examined…

This study examined the extent to which presidents of independent colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools commissioned economic impact studies and their views on the usefulness of such studies. Seventy-three presidents completed a survey questionnaire in the spring of 1997. Responses indicated that 21 schools had conducted an…

A survey of 34 migrant parents and 136 regular classroom teachers in a Kansas school district investigated opinions toward migrant education. Following an extensive literature review focusing on the importance of parent involvement in migrant education, the community of Hays (Kansas) and the Hays Unified School District are described, and the…

Fifty-eight college students from widely diverse backgrounds at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, discuss the impact of gender, race, social class, religion, nationality, age, sexual orientation, or disability on their educational experience. Short essays focus on what students studied, what they heard in class, how they were treated…

This longitudinal study examined changes in teaching goals over the past 2 decades. It reviewed data on trends in teaching goals obtained from national surveys of faculty conducted in 1968 by Platt, Parsons, and Kirschstein (3,045 respondents), in 1972 by the American Council on Education (42,000 respondents), in 1984 and 1989 by the Carnegie…

This paper discusses the development of collaborative assessment models, using a laboratory study of rocks by middle school students as an example. It focuses on the use of collaborative assessment as part of an ongoing classroom process that involves the teacher, student, peers, and a family member. A schedule of checkpoints can be developed for…

With the United States experiencing a changing work force and changing economic conditions, training is perceived to be a necessary component of business operations. Research findings conclude that women in business value relationships and human resources more highly than men do. In the context of these two conditions, a pilot study was conducted…

A study examined parents' satisfaction with their children's school performance and parents' value for their children's academic success as variables that may influence children's perceptions of academic success or failure. Parents' values (parents n=240) were assessed with a ten-item paired-comparison scale made up of five value items. Children's…

This paper examined higher education, women's education, and feminist leadership literature to determine the definitions of power they suggest and the implications of such definitions as they apply to leadership. A textual discourse analysis of five works was conducted; these included works by Clark Kerr, Cryss Brunner, Leslie Bloom and Petra…

This study compared cooperative learning with individual learning in an introductory college electrical engineering course, using attitudinal and cognitive measures. Cooperative learning activities were implemented in homework assignments in one section of the course, while individual homework assignments were used in two other sections. A total…

A 2-year, in-depth study of curriculum tracking in three large metropolitan-area high schools found that most high school teachers and administrators hold vocational education in low regard. Such thinking is a barrier to educational reforms proposed to integrate and improve academic and vocational education. Radical changes may be difficult to…

In order to compare education perceptions in southern Mississippi with nationwide trends that were identified in the 1992 Gallup/Phi Delta Kappa Poll, the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Park Poll sought opinions of respondents on the subjects of public attitudes toward public schools, presidential preferences, and state and national level…

This book reexamines dominant notions of what literacy is and challenges the problem-solution reflex approach to the issue. The book looks in detail at five principles advocated as central to the education of people who often can read, but wish they could read better, or who can write but wish they could write better. These principles focus on…

A study was done to measure attitudes and perceptions among the nation's adults regarding higher education. Specifically, the study examined attitudes about national competitiveness and development of new technologies, the importance of a college degree in the market place, the financial burden of a college education, and federal funding of grants…