Summarizes the author's doctoral research at Northern Illinois University in 1971. (Editor)

A teacher's performance is shaped by the way in which he approaches his job. This study analyzes the effect of certain teacher training experiences on attitudes toward teaching of reading in high school. (Author)

Address presented at the College of Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, during the autumn of 1971. (DS)

Describes the content of a one year post-degree program of science teacher education that utilizes flexible scheduling of required courses and integration of curriculum, methods, philosophical analysis, educational psychology and sociology. (AL)

Describes production of attitude scale assessing beliefs about science and about teaching techniques suitable for elementary school science. Provides data on attitude changes during a one-semester methods course. Copy of scale appended. (AL)

Reports on selected opinions of secondary science methods instructors and their students concerning the new science courses and inquiry teaching, based on the Research on Science Education Survey conducted with 37 colleges and universities from October 1967 to March 1968. (PR)

Reports on the responses to questionnaires sent to instructors of both the general secondary level methods course and the more specific English methods course in an attempt to identify possible overlap between the two courses. (HOD)

This study compared the attitudes toward science teaching and proficiency in the science process skills of elementary education majors enrolled in a physics course v a science methods course. Science process skills appear to be more effectively taught in the physics course. (Author/MK)

Presents results of experiments testing the value of multi-image learning materials in promoting the learning of content and in changing students' attitudes toward content. The subject matter for the multi-image unit was bulletin boards, an area traditionally uninteresting to undergraduate education students enrolled in an audiovisual methods…

Assesses the knowledge of and attitudes towards teaching reading to students enrolled in a reading methods course and assigned to one of three different experiences: regular classroom, special reading class, or university-based program. Notes differences between groups for several attitudes towards teaching reading. (Author/RL)

Describes the continuation of a project that used collaborative technologies to team teach elementary science methods courses across three different public institutions. Student outcomes for the project indicate positive change in comfort with technology and understanding science education issues. (Author/MM)

Reports a study that sought foreign language teachers views of what texts and topics were essential to the foreign language methods cannon. Links results with findings from a review of the literature on foreign language methods courses and offers thoughts regarding implications for the future of foreign language teacher development. (Author/VWL)

Teachers, through secondary, content-area methodology textbooks, are not being exposed to a wide and diverse body of research, either with regard to reading psychology or reading pedagogy. Results are reported from an inquiry to determine which research studies, secondary sources, and researchers consistently appeared in secondary, content-area…