Examines the regulations governing Master's degrees in Education at two comparable universities in Canada and Australia, in light of problems concerning equivalencies of admission, program requirements, and areas of postgraduate specialization. Concludes that the increasing international interchange requires attention to academic and professional…

Thirty-four junior and senior majors in elementary education were the subjects in this study to determine the effects of a competency based teacher education (CBTE) program at the University of Georgia. Four measures were used to determine the effects of the CBTE program. These included (1) the Dimensions of Teachers Beliefs (DTB) instrument, (2)…

This report presents the findings of a survey of College of Education alumni which was designed to determine how effective the college programs have been in providing (a) avenues of upward mobility for students, (b) opportunities for new careers in education, and (c) information on the extent to which graduates are functioning in roles for which…

A survey of institutions of higher education revealed that special education courses offered to preservice education majors were limited. (JD)

A broadened scope of career possibilities for teacher education graduates in settings other than the classroom is discussed, and a curriculum designed to prepare them for work in industrial corporations, museums, hospitals, health and social service organizations, and prisons is described. (JD)

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 factual and higher-order achievement of field-independent and -dependent learners was tested after exposure to lecture material. Students engaged in one of three learning techniques. The study investigated the encoding and external-storage functions of the three techniques. Methodology and results are discussed. (Author/JL)

Comparison of 1976 and 1986 education majors' values and teacher educators' values revealed that, although the student groups remained remarkably consistent across the ten-year span, they differed significantly from teacher educators in various key areas important to the teaching profession. (CB)

A multiple-choice achievement test was constructed in which both cognitive level and degree of abstractness were controlled in test items. By controlling both dimensions, researchers hoped that the variance in achievement scores of earlier research could be accounted for. Results of testing education majors are discussed. (Author/MT)

The Holmes Group Report and the Carnegie Forum on Education and Economy Report offer an opportunity for teacher educators to work on long-held goals involving liberal arts education, teacher education candidates, college school cooperation, role definition of teacher educators, and teacher graduate education. (MT)

A four-level approach to teacher development was prepared from an 18-year study of teacher credential candidates. Characteristics of teachers at each stage are described, and conditions for successful passage from stage to stage are proposed. (DF)

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

Discusses a system in which English faculty evaluate writing proficiency examinations administered by an education department, including the problems engendered by such a system. (AEA)

A study of education students at University of Ife, Nigeria, indicated that (1) the subjects did not bring a "tabula rasa" knowledge of the course content into the study and (2) the course led to knowledge gain even after the effect of preentry knowledge was "partialed out" from end-of-course knowledge. (Author/BW)

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…