Using data from eight years of the Research About Teacher Education (RATE) Project of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, the paper describes profiles of teacher education faculty who participated in the project, noting similarities and differences among the faculty in several teacher education specialties and among various…

Asserts that the dilemma faced by educators is how to interpret their past experiences so that they can design learning environments for students who will live out their lives in a world very different from the one that has molded the educators. Introduces the issue's first three articles and discusses their relation to the theme of modern…

Knowing cause and purpose can enable a useful flexibility in thought and action that is more likely to produce a desired outcome. Some teachers, particularly trainees, new teachers, and those without a strong background in technology, may not address this kind of knowledge. Could children's technology textbooks provide a model of practice for such…

In the last decade there has been an increase in empirical research on coaches of elite able-bodied athletes, while coaches of athletes with a disability have generally been overlooked. Thus, the purpose of the current study was to address this oversight by examining the career evolution and knowledge of these coaches. Six elite coaches of…

There is a conceptual world surrounding writing in schools, and we are conditioned to a particular language about composition and literacy. This study seeks to interrogate the terms composition and literacy at the level of the classroom: to ask what is meant when it is invoked and what it means to the teachers who teach it. The central question of…

This paper, the final product of a study, "International Comparison of Teachers' Salaries," on an exploratory effort to compare salaries of elementary and secondary school teachers in the United States with those in other economically advanced countries. Data was obtained from Canada, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy,…

Data are reported on the characteristics of private school teachers, including: gender, years of experience, teaching status, academic degrees, undergraduate majors, types and purposes of additional training, and teaching fields. The data are organized on the basis of selected school and teacher characteristics. The data are displayed in eight…

Speeches given at the Symposium on Instructional Technologists, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (Los Angeles, February 6, 1969).

HOW TEACHERS FEEL ABOUT THEIR PRESERVICE EDUCATION WAS EXPLORED. INFORMATION WAS GATHERED FROM APPROXIMATELY 3,000 TEACHERS WHO TAUGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME DURING THE 1954-55 SCHOOL YEAR. DATA GATHERED INCLUDED EVALUATION OF THEIR OWN PRESERVICE PROGRAMS BY THE TEACHERS AND AN EVALUATION BY PRINCIPALS OF HOW WELL THIS PROGRAM EQUIPPED THE TEACHERS…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS WAS A FUNCTION OF SEVERAL EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND VARIABLES. THE SUBJECTS, 106 TECHNICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS IN THE JUNIOR COLLEGES OF FLORIDA, WERE JUDGED ON THE BASES OF A BASIC COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION, A SOCIOMETRIC RATING OF…

A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE GENERAL CONCEPTUAL FRAME OF REFERENCE OF THE COLLEGE STUDENT WHO INTENDS TO GO INTO TEACHING, AND PARTICULARLY ABOUT HIS PERCEPTION OF EDUCATIONAL CONCEPTS. THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP CONSISTED OF 245 STUDENTS ENROLLED IN AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN EDUCATION. THE CONTROL GROUP CONSISTED OF 68 STUDENT…

Investigated was the relationship between teacher characteristics and behaviors and student achievement in junior high school science. Background information about teachers was collected from school records regarding science and science methods credits, grade point average, recency of science course work, and years of teaching experience. Teaching…

Forty-six distributive education state supervisors and 49 teacher educators responded to a survey to determine the supply of distributive education teachers, sources of recruitment, and methods employed to recruit. Some of the findings were: (1) 82.2 percent of the state supervisors and 91.8 percent of the teacher educators indicated an inadequate…

Community colleges should be responsive to the shifting needs of society. As in the case of other organizations, however, the ability to initiate and adapt to the necessary changes is dependent on the attitudes and backgrounds of the people in the institution. A primary concern of this study was determining whether junior colleges accept the…