Until recently, many students channeled concern for social and environmental issues into extracurricular and volunteer activities. More are now transforming these interests into full-time academic pursuits, majoring in environmental studies, international development, urban studies, and other community-service-oriented disciplines. (MSE)

The extent to which exposure to ongoing multicultural education experiences can change/reduce bias toward culturally different groups was studied for 51 education majors and 71 college students who had not taken a multicultural human relations course. Prolonged exposure to cultural diversity can produce attitude change in teacher education…

Investigated student teachers' preferences for several methods of classroom management. Fourth-year education students (N=70) were presented with four typical classroom problem behavior scenarios and were offered a choice of four approaches to manage problem. Results revealed that subjects strongly favored humanistic approaches to classroom…

Compares perceptions of 12 students working toward dual certification in elementary education and rural special education and 120 students with traditional education majors. Finds that dual certification students had the most positive attitudes toward rural teaching and living, but held unrealistically high opinions of own competencies. Contains…

A British study explored a student evaluation method that uses students' own records of their educational experience. Development of the instrument for recording student perceptions, the evaluation process, and findings are reported and central issues in this evaluation method are discussed. The instrument's use in preservice teacher education is…

This study examined the effects of mastery learning on college students' achievement in a nonsequential course in curriculum and instruction. Students participated in either classes with conventional teaching, enhanced cognitive entry behavior plus conventional teaching, or feedback/corrective procedures plus the other methods. Using a combination…

Researchers measured the constructs of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for college students' learning, examining self-assessed motivation, composite ACT score, and grade point average (GPA). Extrinsic motivation more strongly (though negatively) predicted GPA. There was a significant positive relationship between GPA and intrinsic motivation.…

Traditional- (n=103) and nontraditional-aged (n=85) women majoring in education were surveyed concerning the relationship of multiple roles to student role strain and affective well-being. Multiple role incumbency was unrelated to student role strain for either group but was positively related to well-being in the nontraditional-age group.…

Describes a university professor's project with prospective elementary teachers who read "Global Mind Change" (Willis Harmon), a book about postmodern science. The project included a content analysis of students' papers regarding students' ideas about the effective incorporation of philosophical and humanistic thinking into elementary…

Locus of control as a potentially inhibiting factor in the acquisition of science-related attitudes was studied using 60 tenth grade biology students, 89 eleventh and twelfth grade chemistry students, and 61 college elementary education majors. Correlations between Rotter's Internal-External Scale and seven subscales of the Test of Science-Related…

Draws on the perspectives of 11 older women preparing to become teachers in the United Kingdom to illustrate the dilemmas faced by mature teacher trainees. Mature women frequently become isolated and marginalized in college and face discrimination when looking for jobs. (SLD)

This paper explores students' perceptions through survey about the definition, use and constructivist nature of multimedia use in literature classes at the collegial level. The culture of schools and students has changed. The possibility exists that students' brains are biologically different as a result of frequent and prolonged interaction with…

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal-Form S was a reliable and valid instrument to measure critical thinking for students pursuing a teacher career. The participants were 137 students enrolled in Educational Psychology. The data showed that the alpha for the total WGTA-FS was 0.76 and…

This study investigated the effects of learning materials with different interaction levels on achievement and motivational perceptions of college students in a web-based learning environment with a posttest only experimental design. There were three groups in this study: control group, reactive interaction group, and proactive interaction group.…

A study investigated the effectiveness of teaching formal grammar and grammatical structures on development of writing skills of learners of English as a Second Language (ESL), and examined possible differences between males and females in this regard. Subjects were 97 university ESL students, 48 males and 49 females enrolled in a school of…