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Platten, Marvin R.; Barker, Bruce O. – 1987
The Texas Interactive Instructional Network (TI-IN), a private satellite system that provides one-way video and two-way audio communication, was used for a two-year pilot project which was conducted to determine if satellite instruction could be used successfully to share educational resources among institutions. Models of Teaching, a graduate…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Course Content, Distance Education, Education Majors
Park, Betsy – 1986
This investigation of information seeking behavior focuses on three behaviors: (1) how people gather information in academic or work environments; (2) the sources they use; and (3) how their behavior relates to the library and its resources. This paper provides a review of the literature on information seeking from 1981 to 1986, a report on a…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, College Libraries, Education Majors, Educational Research
Gill, Wali – 1988
Few educational issues have created as much polarization as multicultural education. Its history in the United States has been varied and diverse in opinion, policy, and reform. The multicultural overview can be delineated from pluralism, to the intergroup movement, to self-determinism by ethnic groups, to a "new pluralism," to present-day global…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development, Education Majors
Stolworthy, Reed L. – 1987
The purpose of this study was to determine the adequacy of the preparation provided by the teacher preparation program at Washburn University (Kansas) relative to the competency of assessing and interpreting student progress. Answers were sought to the following questions: (1) How does the student teacher evaluate his/her competence in regards to…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Education Majors, Higher Education, Practicum Supervision
Villar Angulo, Luis Miguel – 1987
A rating scale was designed to measure college classroom climate in Primary Teacher Training Colleges in Spain, as well as to describe and compare college classroom environments. Data were gathered from 33 classes of students training to be public or private primary school teachers at colleges in Sevilla and Huelva. Participant observation and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Education Courses, Education Majors, Elementary Education
Cheek, Jimmy G.; And Others – 1983
A study examined screening measures that are used to predict whether a student will teach after graduation from an agricultural education program. The population for the study consisted of 72 student teachers studying in the Department of Agricultural Education at the University of South Florida from 1977 to 1982. Before starting student teaching,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agricultural Education, Career Choice, Demography