This paper investigated pre-service teachers' perceptions of student attributions and mathematics performance. Participants from two universities in Alabama (N=80) consisted of 72.5% female, 75.9% white, 21.5% African American, 2.6% other, 44.3% juniors, 38% seniors, 16.5% graduate, and 1.3% sophomores. Results indicate 87.6% of participants…

Results of this study show that (1) vocational agriculture teachers have positive attitudes toward the physically handicapped; (2) inservice education can significantly improve teacher attitudes and (3) effective inservice techniques include videotape presentations of handicapped persons and informal lectures. (SK)

One hundred and eighty part-time instructors in 25 Alabama technical colleges responded to a questionnaire designed to obtain (1) demographic data on selected variables; (2) an assessment of the unique perceived competencies and professional development needs of this population; and (3) information to be used in the design of a program delivery…

Followup sessions were conducted for Alabama teachers who completed training in the "Exploring Space: The Classroom Connection" science teaching program in summer 1997. The effectiveness of these sessions was evaluated for 71 teachers. This analysis also allowed for a comparison of several basic concepts about science of the 1996 Alabama…

Limited literature on physical educator inservice education and training (INSET) needs provides little basis to design INSET programs for such specialized teachers. This study identified physical educators' perceived INSET needs and determined whether there were predictors of such needs. The sample consisted of 265 Alabama physical educators who…

The Northwest Alabama Cooperative Project here reported was funded under Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This project was oriented toward the reorganization of classrooms to include team teaching and continuous progress, improved subject matter skills, and improved understanding of individuals and individual differences. This project was…

The purposes of the Huntsville-Madison County Education Improvement Program were: (1) to develop and demonstrate a curriculum that would improve and enrich the skills, attitudes and thinking processes of the disadvantaged preschool child; (2) to develop in-service programs that would afford teachers and other personnel better understanding of the…

Brewton City (Alabama) school district administrators implemented the concept of an institution of higher education (IHE) person becoming involved in their schools' professional programs on a long-term basis. The IHE person became as familiar as possible with the school system and the personnel involved by talking with teachers, observing in…

The stages of development and reporting of a statewide needs assessment about inservice teacher education that was conducted with educators in Alabama during the 1992-93 school year are described. The first phase was development of a pilot instrument by focus groups. The instrument was tested with 559 workshop participants, and the final…

As a move to strengthen the preparation of and induction of first year teachers into the challenges of their chosen profession, the State Department of Education was making moves in the direction of providing additional support in that transitional process. Bradshaw with encouragement from his major professor who was involved in planning the…