TO DISCOVER IF PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS, NEEDS, VALUES, AND ATTITUDES OF TEACHERS PREDICT CLASSROOM CLIMATE, 36 MALE PHYSICS TEACHERS VOLUNTARILY ATTENDED A BRIEFING SESSION FOR A NEW HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS COURSE AND TOOK A BATTERY OF PERSONALITY TESTS BEFORE TEACHING APPROXIMATELY 2,000 JUNIORS AND SENIORS TAKING THE NEW COURSE. CRITERION…

TO DETERMINE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES OTHER THAN TEACHING, QUESTIONNAIRES WERE SENT TO 1,200 TEACHERS IN THE GAMMA EPSILON (INDIANA) AREA. ANALYSIS OF 630 RETURNS (311 ELEMENTARY, 166 JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, 153 HIGH SCHOOL) SHOWED THAT TEACHERS SPENT 25-30 HOURS A WEEK IN NONTEACHING ACTIVITIES, AS FOLLOWS--(1) ABOUT 3 HOURS A WEEK IN BUILDING…

A mail questionnaire was sent to the 64-member teaching staff of the Lord Selkirk Regional Comprehensive High School, in order to determine their preferences for school media services. A related area of interest in the investigation was the determination of the relationship between teacher characteristics (e.g., sex, age, subject area taught,…

A STUDY WAS MADE IN 18 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY DELAWARE SCHOOLS TO INVESTIGATE THE SEPARATE AND INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF ROLES, ORGANIZATIONS, AND PERSONALITIES ON THE ALIENATION OF TEACHERS. PERSONALITY WAS DESIGNATED AS ABSTRACT AND CONCRETE. ROLES WERE DESIGNATED AS AUTHORITARIAN-RITUALISTIC, INSTRUMENTAL, RITUALISTIC-GRATIFICATORY, AND…

The purpose of the project was to design and present an inservice education program for work experience teachers and coordinators in order to improve their operational effectiveness at the school/classroom level. A series of five three-hour programs were conducted at five California locations. A total of 503 participants, representing 211 school…

A questionnaire designed to gather data on seven different approaches to the teaching of composition and disseminated among a sample of high school and college English teachers in the New York area forms the basis of this discussion. Form, thematic, grammatical, processes, creative, rhetorical, and psychological approaches are defined and…

This document incorporates questionnaire results of a national study sample drawn from the million high school juniors and seniors who had taken the ACT battery during 1969-70. Students responded to more than 100 multiple-choice items and to one open-end question each on student protest, parents, and schools and teachers. This volume records…

The Croft In-Service Reading Program was one program selected for the inservice training of the District of Columbia public school teachers. It proposed to help teachers at every grade level to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to be successful in teaching word attack skills, but was mainly designed for elementary teachers. An evaluation…

A training effort to upgrade the competencies of classroom teachers in program evaluation at the local school level was undertaken by the Division of Research and Development of the Cleveland Public Schools during the Spring of 1971. The model for this training effort was the Evaluation Liaison Teacher Plan, which provided for assignment of an…

College professors and elementary and secondary teachers were compared relative to their perspectives on preservice educational measurement courses. In five of eight content areas on a questionnaire, the relative emphases given by professors differed from teachers in the areas of nontest evaluation, statistical analysis, and formative and…

A questionnaire, including a list of 27 measurement topics, was sent to Utah teachers to study teachers' perception of the importance of various educational measurement topics. Results showed that teachers perceived most of the topics as important and that an undergraduate course could be developed to meet the needs of teacher students.…

Presents a study which measured secondary school mathematics and science teachers' (N=3576) opinions on what students should know about computers. (DS)

Reports on two studies that examined teachers' perceptions of the characteristics of good schools. Notes that institutional biases exist in all types of schools. Found high levels of agreement among primary, secondary, and special school teachers' ratings of the qualities of good schools. (KO)

This article explores the beliefs and practices of a high school biology teacher through three interrelated theoretical frameworks: common knowledge, collaborative learning, and communities of practice. The data were obtained from an in-depth case study of Maria, a biology teacher from a Mexican public high school that was participating in a…

Since 1999 all newly qualified teachers (NQTs) in England have been required to complete a statutory induction year. In Wales the induction year became statutory in 2003. This article reports on the experiences of NQTs during the year 2000-2001. All of the NQTs received their initial training in Wales, but some obtained employment in England and…