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Baird, John R. – 1994
This paper describes how students can be personally challenged in the work they do and how secondary students or tertiary-level education students and teachers can collaboratively diagnose existing quality of classroom practice, via the concepts of personal challenge and interpersonal shared adventure. The approach involves the teacher obtaining…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Classroom Communication, Diagnostic Teaching, Education Majors
Savenye, Wilhelmina C. – 1993
In order to investigate how attitudes among preservice teachers are influenced by participation in a computer literacy course and to test the utility of an attitude questionnaire, a study was conducted with 75 college preservice teachers (56 females and 19 males). The course was developed to teach the use and understanding of computer technologies…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Students, Computer Anxiety, Computer Assisted Instruction
Smith, Gary R. – 1993
Preservice students in the College of Education at Wayne State University (Michigan) are expected to complete at least one semester using microcomputers and courseware that they can use to support their teaching of elementary school and secondary school pupils in metropolitan Detroit. A survey form was developed to collect information about the…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware
Yoder, John H. – 1992
It is hypothesized that the educational, cultural, and historical context in which education takes place, especially in a developing country, will result in a particular view of teaching effectiveness. This study, conducted at the University of Botswana, sought to identify classes of teacher characteristics that were considered to be contributors…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Context Effect, Cultural Context, Demography
Gruetzemacher, Richard R.; Morris, Ronald J. – 1992
Constructs underlying student ratings of instruction in an introductory master's level educational research course were investigated in order to gain a better understanding of instructor behaviors that facilitate student success. During academic years 1990-91 and 1991-92, an institutionally developed scale was administered to students enrolled in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Course Evaluation, Education Majors, Factor Analysis
Hodges, V. Pauline; Nash, Ana Marie – 1982
A review of writing and reading competencies among college students in general and education majors in particular indicates possible directions in setting teacher education admission standards, in providing language instruction courses for student teachers, and in establishing criteria for exiting teacher education programs. As is suggested by…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Education Majors, Educational Research
Connecticut State Board of Education, Hartford. – 1987
The twelfth annual report on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores of Connecticut's college-bound seniors analyzes their characteristics, high school records, and college plans. This report is based upon the most recent responses of 28,302 1985-86. seniors who participated in the College Board's Admission Testing Program at any time during…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, College Bound Students, Comparative Analysis
Taylor, Hugh – 1975
Grade inflation is discussed, and some solutions are offered for the grade inflation problem which exists in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Examples illustrate the existence of grade inflation at several colleges and universities, as well as at the high school level. Various reactions--involving college…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, College Bound Students
McLean, James E. – 1980
Courses, instruction, arrangements, and student outcomes of the Monterrey Tech Staff Development Program were evaluated. The program was designed to assist faculty and administrators of the Monterrey Institute of Technology strengthen their qualifications through a master's degree program in education offered in Mexico City by regular members of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrators
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: a teacher training project offering a structured reading program as a model for the teaching of reading; relationships between students in traditional and competency-based reading methods…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Communication Skills, Competency Based Teacher Education, Doctoral Dissertations
Virginia Univ., Charlottesville. Center for the Study of Higher Education. – 1980
The handbook provides general information for prospective applicants to the graduate study programs in higher education at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Virginia. It is intended as a supplement to the university catalogs. Information is given about three degree programs (Education Specialist, Ed.S.; Doctor of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Admission, Degree Requirements, Degrees (Academic)
Linhart, Cynthia A.; Yeager, John L. – 1979
The course-taking behavior of various types of students pursuing undergraduate professional programs was examined, and an attempt was made to demonstrate some analytical procedures that can be applied in studying course-taking behavior. Course-taking behavior was defined as the average credit hour load of a student as distributed across the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Comparative Analysis, Courses, Departments
Dreier, William H.; Eastman, Robert D. – 1979
A two-day exchange between staff of the University of Northern Iowa at Cedar Falls and the Burt Community School proved successful for all participants. The university team (professors, graduate students, and senior students who had completed student teaching) became responsible for the education of the Burt students while the Burt teachers and…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Educational Experiments, Experiential Learning, Extension Education
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Sparks, William G., III; Verner, M. Elizabeth – Physical Educator, 1995
This study examined the effects of four preservice teacher education courses (two in multicultural education, a field experience, and student teaching in urban areas) on preservice teachers' perceptions of their multicultural knowledge and attitudes. Findings indicated that subjects' perceptions of multicultural knowledge and attitudes were…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Education Courses, Education Majors, Elementary Secondary Education
Henke, Robin R.; And Others – 1996
This study used data from the ongoing Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study to examine college graduates' preparation for and entry into teaching, as well as their movement into and out of the profession over time. Text, seven figures, and 15 tables detail the data on the "teacher pipeline"; examine who enters it (such as…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Career Choice, Demography, Education Majors
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