TO IDENTIFY FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH PERSISTENCE IN TEACHING AND TO SUPPLEMENT A 10-YEAR LONGITUDINAL QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY OF THE 1954 CLASS OF CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK STUDENT TEACHERS, 50 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, WHO HAD BEEN TEACHING FROM 7 TO 10 YEARS SINCE GRADUATION, WERE INTERVIEWED. THE SUBJECTS WERE DRAWN FROM A TOTAL…

TO DETERMINE IF EXPERIENCED TEACHERS OF THE DISADVANTAGED WITH SIMILAR SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS BUT OF VARIOUS ETHNIC ORIGINS WOULD DIFFER IN (1) ATTITUDES AND SENSITIVITIES TOWARD CHILD BEHAVIOR AND (2) LEVELS OF OPTIMISM ABOUT WORKING WITH AND HEADSTART TEACHERS WERE STUDIED. THE MINNESOTA TEACHER HEADSTART TEACHERS WERE STUDIED. THE MINNESOTA…

Some of the works in this brief annotated bibliography present the findings of studies identifying the racial and social attitudes of the middle-class urban teacher and indicate how these attitudes may affect student performance; others are reports of inservice teacher education programs conducted to change negative teacher attitudes; and a few…

The Eighth Annual Report on the characteristics of newly appointed certificated personnel in California Community Colleges for the academic year 1974-75 provides relevant data from 102 public and 6 private community colleges. The full-time staff of instructors, counselors, librarians, and administrators were reported as 15,834. 1,103 new full-time…

This study represents the last of four studies devoted to Provisional Certification in Illinois--to the problems of provisionally certificated personnel in obtaining regular teaching certificates and the ways in which these problems can be alleviated through the cooperation of teacher training institutions, local school systems, county…

The Economic Education Center of the College of St. Thomas conducted this survey of social studies and business education programs in the St. Paul area high schools to procure information for determining (1) the types of services needed by classroom teachers in the field of economics and (2) the nature of programs which should be offered by the…

The Teacher Questionnaire was developed in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Plan (see TM 000 608) to evaluate the educational quality of Pennsylvania public schools. The questionnaire was completed by at least three teachers in the sample schools. Questions pertain to biographical data, teachers' attitudes toward teaching as a profession, toward…

The problem was to compare regional high schools including grades 9 to 12, small high schools having the same grades, and other high schools having per-pupil cost comparable to regional high schools in terms of the following criteria: (a) per-pupil expenditures; (b) pupil-teacher ratios; (c) number of different preparations per teacher; (d) scope…

A pilot study was conducted of the understanding of prospective elementary school teachers of mathematical concepts. Purposes were to test the diagnostic instrument used to measure comprehension of concepts and to determine whether American College Test mathematics scores of student teachers could be used to predict ability to understand concepts…

This paper reports the results of a 1975 survey of 169 female journalism instructors in community colleges, conducted for the purpose of developing a demographic profile and to gather information about professional journalism and teaching experience relative to salary and other job-related topics. Of those surveyed, 54 usable responses were…

Discusses the need for improved and more effective teaching of basic skills, composition, and reading, as well as literature, in the community colleges. Reviews previous studies of communication skills vs literacy appreciation teaching, the lack of properly prepared English teachers, and the lack of effective teaching conditions. (MB)

Results of this study demonstrate that department chairmen of academic departments, classified according to Holland's model environments, devote significantly different amounts of time to selected dimensions of their job and that these differences are generally consistent with the psychological resemblances among these environments. (Author/DEP)

Examined the proportion and characteristics of White faculty in a sample of Black colleges; explored White faculty's perception of their relationships with Black students, faculty, and administrators; and considered whether White faculty members' social characteristics and racial composition within the college were related to individual…

This study employed a causal model to examine the influence of personal characteristics, undergraduate institutional characteristics, and college experiences on the attainment of entry into the teaching profession. The sample comprised 890 students aspiring to be teachers upon enrollment in college in 1971. Results are presented. (Author/MT)

The author argues that statistics is no more a branch of mathematics than it is of economics. It is suggested that because statistics is a distinct discipline, it is unprofessional for mathematicians who lack training and experience in working with data to teach statistics. (PK)