Internet access tools and devices are developing with the prevalence of the Internet, which is considered revolutionary in information and communications technology. Beside the widespread use of the Internet among young people, statistics show that the number of older people that use the Internet is also on the rise. The purpose of the study is to…

Teaching and assessing doctor-patient communication has become a priority in medical education. This pilot study evaluated resident physicians' perceptions of teaching and assessing doctor-patient communication skills related to pain management using a web-based format. Fifty-nine resident physicians completed four doctor-patient clinical…

The Americas conventionally are divided into two continents, North and South America, with the place of demarcation at the border between Panama and Colombia. Yet a generation of students is growing up with the broad but imprecise term Latin America, referring to all of those countries south of the United States, while North America has come to…

Focusing on the way teachers conceptualize reading and on whether these conceptions influence instructional practice, a study was undertaken utilizing a propositional inventory and a naturalistic field study. The propositional inventory was used in two teacher surveys: the first included 602 teachers and sought to determine their conceptions of…

The examination of school organization from a cultural perspective focuses on value orientation and commitment in elementary and secondary schools, and relates the predicted cultural differences to specific organizational and demographic attributes. A cluster-sampling procedure first selected schools as the unit of analysis, and then selected…

A survey was designed to collect descriptive information from teachers of severely/profoundly handicapped (S/PH) students in the public schools of Nevada and Utah. Analysis of 59 responses provided information on teacher demographics (including that the majority of teachers were female, held a special education credential and were relatively…

This study examined factors related to survey response rate, particularly for teachers who participated in a nationwide survey. Using a newly developed statistical technique, the classification tree algorithm (CART), this study classified the lowest response rate and highest response rate groups based on their school demographic characteristics.…

Recent research has suggested that previous assumptions of organizational cohesion in schools might be misleading. That is, contrary to what is commonly believed, (l) principals may be influenced by organizational climate to a greater degree than they influence it; and (2) the external environment may have a strong impact on organizational climate…

This study was conducted to determine: the demographic characteristics of beginning teachers in West Virginia; the personality needs of beginning teachers; and the school climate these teachers perceived in their schools. The sample consisted of 250 of the 738 teachers in West Virginia who were completing their first year of teaching in 1987. The…

Demographic profile data and data on barriers to teaching were collected and examined for part-time teachers in noncredit adult and continuing education programs in Nebraska. The data collection instrument was a mailed questionnaire administered statewide to a random sample of teachers, of whom 209 responded. Part-time teachers in noncredit…

The study surveyed 33 teachers of the emotionally disabled to obtain information to help in teacher recruitment and to learn about teacher attrition and burnout. Demographic data identified teacher characteristics. Data gathered included job satisfactions, dissatisfactions, and reasons for leaving the job. A followup structured telephone interview…

A study was conducted to determine the role of technology teacher education programs in preparing new and experienced teachers for teaching and managing programs for students at risk of dropping out of school. The first part of the study focused on the methods of data collection and preliminary findings. Data were gathered through a…

A study examined the relation between the esteem, autonomy, job satisfaction, demographic characteristics, and expressed desire of industrial education teachers to leave the teaching profession. The study population consisted of 45 full-time industrial education teachers who taught in small, medium, and large departments (15 teachers from each…

Demographic, attitudinal, and response-completion differences were investigated for initial and delayed respondents to a mail survey targeting 600 elementary and secondary school teachers. Overall response rate was 71.2 percent. Twenty-five nonrespondents were interviewed. Delay of response was associated with lower interest in the topic and lower…

A study compared teachers' and principals' perceptions of six elements of effective teaching: classroom climate, questioning, set induction, stimulus variation, reinforcement, and closure. The part of the study reported here focuses on elementary teachers' written ratings and rankings of the six elements. The sample for the study was comprised of…