A follow-up study of recent graduates of the College of Education at the University of New Orleans was developed to continue the organized assessment program of the College. Information gathered by the investigation is intended to provide the basis for revision of the undergraduate teacher education program and the development of effective…

Three consecutive experiments examined the effect of offering college students performance-contingent points toward their final course grade under various combinations of knowledge of correct response and rules with examples of how to perform the task. Students who were offered points and received rules with examples scored lower on an immediate…

The College of Education at Texas Woman's University developed an undergraduate teacher preparation program with a specialization in reading for both elementary and secondary education majors. Graduate programs leading to both master's and doctor's degrees in reading are also available. A reading laboratory has been designed to accommodate…

This study evaluated the relative merits of the more rigid Basic Studies Program and the more flexible General Education Program in the College of Education at Temple University in terms of the academic achievement of students and scores on the National Teacher Examinations (NTE). The sample consisted of 503 students in the Basic Studies Program…

The Higher Education Panel (HEP) of the American Council on Education conducted the present survey to determine the enrollment figures for junior-year college students in specific fields so that colleges and universities might better plan for future programs in terms of projected enrollments. Over all fields, junior-year enrollment increased 7.6%…

Three special field-based student teaching projects at Indiana University which include on-site course work are briefly described. Data are presented that indicate that education majors at the university: (a) enroll in demanding, multiculturally oriented student teaching programs; (b) request and accept out-of-state placements in ethnic minority…

A decline in the college-going rate for high school graduates, and the shrinking public school population with its resultant decline in the demand for new teachers, have both contributed to drops in enrollment which many schools of education are experiencing. There are ways, however, by which schools of education can avoid disastrous results.…

The Experimenter Prestige Effect (EPE) concerns the phenomenon where research products will be more readily and less critically accepted if produced by scholars and/or institutions of great eminence, even though the objective quality of ideas, methodology, and findings are equal. This study tested the hypothesis that students give higher ratings…

The undergraduate research-development program aims to increase students' orientation and commitment toward future research-development training and professional engagement. This paper focuses upon the instrument development training and professional engagement. This paper focuses upon the instrument development efforts in this area. Two new…

A study of three teaching methods used in an educational psychology course was designed to observe the effects of each method and each combination of methods on the students' teaching skill and attitude toward educational psychology and microteaching. Three methods were manipulated: lectures on general technical skills related to teaching…

Research was undertaken to compare the attitudes toward instructional media of seconeary education majors who took a full course in media with those of comparable students who received an introduction to media as part of a general methods course. Based on the previous findings that improved attitude led to improved and more effective utilization,…

This project was an effort to field test a theoretical model suggested in an American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education publication entitled "An Illustrated Model for the Evaluation of Teacher Education Graduates." The model was designed to obtain objective, quantifiable data on graduates of the teacher preparation program of Western…

This study details the main activities that pre-student teachers were scheduled to engage in while in the Exploratory Field Experience Program at the University of Iowa. Its primary purpose was to investigate the effect of an undergraduate exploratory field experience (pre-student teaching) course on the attitudes held by prospective teachers. The…

This study found no overall significant differences in open-closed mindedness between students majoring in education and those majoring in other fields as measured by the Rokeach D and F Scales. The sample consisted of 1,016 junior and senior students from Utah State University (USU) and 893 from Weber State College (WSC). At USU, differences…