This study examined teachers' beliefs about technology adoption as a reasoned, deliberate, intentional decision-making process, as reflected in Ajzen's (1985) Theory of Planned Behavior. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from teachers in four schools located in the southeastern region of the United States. Overall results indicated…

Reduction in the size of classes from Kindergarten to Grade 3 was a major Liberal Party campaign promise in Ontario's 2003 provincial election. It was intended to demonstrate a new government's commitment to improving public education. By the 2008-09 school year, the provincial government's goals had been achieved: over 90% of all primary classes…

This article describes instructor use of tablet computers for personal use, research activities and teaching practices within the Faculties of Science and Engineering at UOIT. The benefits of tablet use were evaluated on the basis of types of usage, personal and professional productivity and the "richness" of the overall computing…

Purpose: Teacher hiring decisions have far-reaching consequences for a school, its students, and faculty. This article examines how new teachers in four states are hired and explores whether the process leads to good matches between these individuals and their schools. The authors conceive of hiring as a two-way process and examine the extent to…

A study examined how West Virginia secondary vocational education (VE) teachers use student assessment information in making instructional decisions. A 5-part questionnaire designed to determine how 6 types of student assessment methods were being used in addressing 10 instructional decisions was administered to a randomly selected cluster sample…

In five junior high schools and five senior high schools in Utah, the "voting method" was used to identify four groups of teachers, including (a) a group nominated by each principal as the most effective teachers in his school, (b) a group nominated by current students as their favorite teachers, (c) a group nominated by graduates as the…

The interaction effects among organizational commitment, perceived personal efficacy, and expectations with respect to the impact of collective bargaining are explored in relation to their effect on the degree of faculty support for collective bargaining. Data for the analysis was derived from approximately 1,450 full-time faculty in California…

The objective of this study was to test several hypotheses concerning the relationship of principal-teacher value congruence to group satisfaction in elementary schools. Teachers and principals from rural and small-town public elementary schools in Illinois and Indiana were asked to respond to the VAL-ED instrument and one Heslin Group…

TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT PERCEPTIONS OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE TEACHERS ARE INFLUENCED BY JUDGES' ATTITUDES TOWARD EDUCATION, SEVEN "SUCCESSFUL" ADJECTIVE-CHECKLIST AND AGREE-DISAGREE SCALES (AMONG AN INITIAL 11 SCALES) WERE ADMINISTERED TO EIGHT SAMPLES OF FROM 131 TO 556 TEACHERS AND GRADUATE EDUCATION STUDENTS IN FIVE…

A survey designed to identify perceived educational needs in a large suburban school district was administered to a representative sample of elementary teachers, junior high teachers, senior high teachers, special education teachers, junior high students, senior high students, and parents. Intercorrelation and factor analysis of the data revealed…

The relationship to first grade ability and achievement levels of children with day-care attendance for as long as five years prior to entry into the first grade was studied. In particular, the study was concerned with the potentially harmful effects of prolonged program attendance itself as a form of maternal separation rather than with speed and…

THE SCOPE AND EFFECT OF GENERAL ART OFFERINGS, DESIGNED FOR NONPROFESSIONAL STUDENTS OF ART, WERE STUDIED TO IDENTIFY CURRENT PRACTICES IN ART INSTRUCTION AS A PHASE OF LIBERAL EDUCATION. DATA WERE COLLECTED VIA SCHOOL BROCHURES, COURSE OUTLINES, AND ATTITUDE/OPINION POLLS AMONG DEPARTMENT HEADS, STAFF MEMBERS, AND STUDENTS AT INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS.…

Twenty-three teaching competencies identified as "essential" in a state-wide teacher survey by Florida's Council on Teacher Education (COTE) are reexamined as an aid in producing valid and assessable programs for teacher education. Three hundred and fifty central Florida teachers were questioned to rate the competencies on an…

Goodman's logit analysis (the simplest form of log-linear models) was used with hypothetical school survey data to analyze and predict teachers' attitudes toward proficiency tests. Logit analysis can estimate the "main effects" and "interaction effects" of categorical explanatory variables on dichotomous-dependent variables in…

This bulletin is one of a series reporting on the nationwide study, "Qualification and Preparation of Teachers of Exceptional Children," which for the past 3 years has been a major project of the Office of Education. The findings in this study that have bearing on the qualifications of teachers of partially seeing children are reported in this…