Past work on mathematics teachers' content knowledge (CK) and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) has resulted in mixed findings about the strength of the relationship between and development of these constructs. The current study uses data from the Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics (TEDS-M) to examine the relationship between…

Many schools and school systems have been deliberately working towards full implementation of Assessment for Learning for more than a decade, yet success has been elusive. Using a leader's implementation of Assessment for Learning in one school as an illustration, this article examines eight positional leaders' experiences as they implemented both…

In response to a need for a systematic national survey of the status of pre-college psychology that would be made available to all interested researchers and teachers, this document presents seven status studies -- one each from Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Montana, Oklahoma, and Ontario. The data most frequently presented in these…

Curriculum processes in representative areas of four large Western countries are investigated. Countries involved in the study include Australia, Canada, England, and the United States, which is represented by Georgia. Core curricula in these countries are markedly similar. Data on curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation were…

Volume 1 begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction and includes state school-system statistics. Chapter I covers education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Chapter II presents children's growth statistics collected in Worcester, Mass., Toronto, Ontario, and Milwaukee. Chapter III addresses German university pension and…

This document contains 23 papers from a conference on promoting excellence in research and teaching for business. The following are among the papers included: "Alternative Licensure/Certification Assessment of State Specialists" (Marilyn Chalupa, Ginny Richerson, Nancy Groneman, Kimberlee Bartel, Randy L. Joyner, Dennis LaBonty);…