Measures of anxiety toward statistics and belief in certain stereotypes about statistics were administered to graduate students in nursing and education at the beginning and end of a statistics course. Factor analysis showed three dimensions of negative perceptions. Anxiety decreased during the course. Implications for curriculum evaluation are…

A follow-up examined whether a prior battery of tests was positively related to college student performance on comparable tests given a year later. End of the semester measures of teaching effectiveness in terms of student performance and attitudes were positively related to similar responses obtained a year later. (Author/RD)

Responses from an informal survey of directors of postsecondary allied health programs are summarized to indicate their concerns about allied health education issues in the following areas: definition (identity), credentialing, funding, education institutions and clinical arrangements, curriculum, continuing education, faculty and administration,…

A scale designed to measure the extent of collaboration of pupil personnel services teams was validated against a judge's rating of collaboration and the existence of regular planning meetings between pupil personnel services teams and school personnel. (Author)

Sixty farmers were interviewed to identify their principal sources of agricultural information, their perceptions of Cooperative Extension credibility, and the socioeconomic characteristics affecting their relationship with Extension. Among the presented findings is that extension agents and commercial dealers were used as secondary information…

Presents findings of a survey incorporating eight value scales from the Maryland Work Value Inventory (MWVI) concerning the meaning of work, values associated with work, and the relationship between both and job satisfaction. (Editor/TA)

Describes a 1-year experimental program set up in a Canadian vocational training institution to study a systems versus the traditional approach to managing technical training. Project data indicated that the experimental group achieved the same body of knowledge in approximately half the training time of the traditional group. (MF)

Opposing extension education within the agricultural education department, the author states that the agricultural education curriculum would not be appropriate for persons not in agricultural extension; program focus should be on preparing vocational agricultural teachers, not on other options; and department organization and administration would…

Presents ten critical points that one parent considers when visiting and making judgments about a day care center and its program. (BB)

To investigate the claim that the Statistics Attitude Survey (SAS) contains a number of achievement-related items rather than attitude-related items, the SAS and the Attitudes Toward Statistics (ATS) were administered to 280 introductory statistics students. Results showed similarities between the tests. (Author/GDC)

A teacher shares her experience with the Napa County Follow Through Project, describing effects on her as a professional and as a person, effects on her peers, school, and students. (MT)

Outlines a number of barriers in behavioral consultation, including the lack of standardization of consultation, lack of specific training of consultants, little or no consultee (teacher) training, problems surrounding target behavior identification, and external constraints to consultation. Each area is described along several dimensions that…

Interviews with 13 educators who have been deeply involved with differentiated staffing, career ladder programs, or both provided the data for this analysis of why differentiated staffing didn't work, how the two concepts differ, why career ladders are currently popular, and how likely the career ladder concept is to succeed. (PGD)

Suggests that the single most important common denominator of the various types of self-help groups examined may be that the role of the person who has already lived through the experience is critical for helping others. (Author/AM)

A survey was conducted among 139 elementary public, private, parochial, charter, and home school teachers to help Kingman Museum in Battle Creek, Michigan re-establish educational programming with area schools after having been closed for two years. The purpose of the study was to identify museum programs that teachers are most likely to use, the…