This study shows that the psychosocial climate of a classroom has an effect on the learning of students. Consequently, teachers and supervisors should monitor the classroom climate and develop techniques for improving it. The subjects for the study were 1,100 secondary students in 48 mathematics classes in eastern Ontario. Variables in the study…

This document evaluates a Human Relations Training Program for teachers in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee. The first part of the program, covering the period from the summer of 1968 to June 1969, is considered in detail in Appendix B. It included a 2-week summer laboratory and 14 Saturday meetings for 150 participants. The second period,…

To test the hypothesis that track position exerts an independent, causal influence on the academic achievement of high school students, background data and complete high school records were compared for students who had begun as 10th graders in 1961 at two midwestern senior high schools. For statistical analysis, the two cohorts--753 students from…

The purpose of this study was to test the hypotheses that schools with more participative processes and less structure have higher levels of perceived organizational effectiveness, teacher job satisfaction, and student achievement than schools with less participative climates and more structure. A sample of 114 school units and 1,632 teachers…

This study examined whether new streamed Internet audio and video technology could be used for primary instruction in off-campus research classes. Several different off-campus student cohorts at Illinois State university enrolled in both a fall semester qualitative research methods class and a spring semester quantitative research methods class.…

Tested validity of the Portuguese version of the Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation questionnaire. Found results similar to original French-Canadian instrument in stability, internal consistency, and factorial structure. Found associations between teacher's description of social competence and behavioral difficulties in Brazilian…

A survey of 139 teachers and 138 parents identified educational level and family income as predictors of attitudes toward gifted education. Analysis of extracted principal components found that socioeconomic status and contact with giftedness explained 12% and 10%, respectively, of the variance in attitude scores. (Author/DB)

This paper reports on the results of a small-scale survey of the attitudes of instructors of non-language subjects towards the use of English as a medium of instruction in Turkish universities, where Turkish is the native language of the great majority of the students. The sample of this study consisted of 100 instructors at the universities in…

The Government White Paper "Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation" (1999) provides a clear indication that accidents are a serious public health problem and have been targeted by the Department of Health as a key area for prevention over the next 10 years. School-based injury prevention programmes have been identified as one of the key…

A modified version of gap analysis, an assessment tool used in professional service industries, was tested for its applicability in higher education. The model helps researchers discern the existence of gaps in organizational communication that influence stakeholder expectations and perceptions of quality. An exploratory study was undertaken…

A study examined whether or not the composition faculty at the University of Northern Iowa agreed on criteria for evaluating student writing and to what extent they would give similar scores even if their criteria did not agree. Using 15 sample student papers written for the Writing Competency Examination (WCE), the scores given by current writing…

In order to understand the mechanisms of the socializing processes associated with citizenship development in the United States, it is necessary to study the interactions of ideology, education, and cultural pluralism as they are manifested in educational programs and in the processes of child development. The means and methods for understanding…

Designed to investigate the existing attitudes of students and instructors toward the computer managed instruction (CMI) learning environment, this research project also identified factors relating to these attitudes. Questionnaires were developed and administered to 100 instructors and 255 trainees from five schools taught under the CMI system.…

Analytical strategies for examinining attitudinal data about teacher brinkmanship behavior collected in a semantic-differential format, and delineating the qualitative distinctions among types of brinkmanship behavior are suggested. Teacher brinkmanship is described as behavior which expresses dissatisfaction with facets of the roles teachers are…

The project reported on here was established to develop an item pool to reflect the universe of content set down in "Education in the Primary and Junior Division" (EPJD), which was adopted by the Ontario Ministry of Education in 1975 to provide a general framework for the justification of curricular decisions; to provide a curriculum…