If healthy mathematical beliefs are to be fostered in students, the teachers' beliefs must also be considered. The purpose of this study was to determine: (1) the impact on interns' (n=137) mathematical beliefs of an exploratory, student-centered mathematics course, "Mathematics for Elementary Teachers Via Problem Solving," (T104) for preservice…

This study was designed to explore (1) whether empathy can be taught to undergraduates, (2) if gains can be achieved in a short training period, (3) whether gains will be maintained, and (4) if students will have positive attitudes toward the training. Results were all found to be decidedly positive. (Author/BW)

Intrinsic motivation is usually regarded as a significant determinant of the use of elaborative and metacognitive learning strategies that, in turn, foster the acquisition of well-structured and transferable knowledge. In studies testing this assumption the following pattern of results is usually obtained: Intrinsic motivation is significantly…

Analyzes the viewpoints of conservatives and liberals toward poor students through a survey of student teachers, placing special emphasis on the poverty information levels of the respondents in the study, and concluding that it is quite plausible that ideology filters information. (Author/JM)

A retrospective account of the interactive research process in a study of students who left other occupations for teaching describes four research dimensions (initiation of the internal interdisciplinary collaboration, external collaboration with faculty advisors, external collaboration with students, and internal collaboration in constructing the…

This is an individually administered rating scale designed to evaluate teacher trainee attitudes toward a social simulation game of didactic teaching entitled "Explanation." A major goal of the scale is to seek responses that measure students' reactions to the cognitive interest and motivational nature of the learning game through the use of…

This paper reports the results of a study for determining the reading vocabularies of graduating seniors majoring in education. The vocabulary section of Form A of the Nelson-Denny Reading Test was administered to ninety-eight graduating seniors at a major Southwestern State university. An analysis of the data revealed that only the teachers of…

Examined the stability of prestige rankings for 25 occupations and determined whether business, education, and law students (N=162) differ in their rankings of specific occupations. Results indicated that prestige rankings of these occupations have remained stable over time and that students differed in their rankings of occupations. (BH)

The results of this study indicate that significant differences in personality exist between women physical education students and women general education students. (RC)

Education students classified themselves as vocational, academic, nonconformist or collegiate and responded to a semantic differential on curricula and personnel. This article describes the study and its results. (Authors/JB)

Investigated the hypothesis that global evaluation of instruction by college students is positively related to the match between student learning style preference and instructor's teaching style. Results included a correlation of .87 between whether instructors taught according to student perceptions of good teaching and student rating of teacher…

A professor of American literature ruefully reports on an interview with a student who will soon be a teacher. It is suggested she has been deprived of knowledge in the name of creativity, deprived of skills in the name of self-expression, deprived of understanding in the name of values. (Author/MLW)

Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses investigated the dimensionality of a modification of the Maslach Burnout Inventory. The sample of 147 fifth-year college students in an elementary teacher training program demonstrated the multidimensional construct validity of the new instrument--the College Student Survey--within the theoretical…

Explored student teachers' perceptions of humanistic education in light of their own home, school, and university experiences. Data from 70 4th-year education students strongly endorsed humanistic education. Responses to some items, however, suggest that respondents did not understand the philosophical/conceptual basis of humanistic education.…

Administered loneliness questionnaire and additional questions to 154 students of education at large West German city university. Found significant correlations between loneliness rating and self-rated shyness, social contact difficulty, and lack of physical attractiveness. Average loneliness level was similar to level of United States sample,…