The stand alone IT/computer course is the earliest IT training model in teacher education programs. This course model has been severely criticized and there has been a call to eliminate it from preservice teachers' IT training. Over the past decade, new IT initiatives were implemented to integrate the computer use throughout teacher training…

This bibliography lists material that has appeared since 1968 on teacher education programs for native people. It is divided into the following two sections: (1) books and papers, and (2) articles and excerpts from books. Each listing contains the author, title, city of publication, publisher, number of pages, date of publication, and usually an…

Emporia State University's (Kansas) teacher education program conducted research to determine how it could help interested students meet new admission standards and enter the teacher education program. Analysis of records of students who had not met the program's new standards indicated that some students were not aware of the new standards and…

A follow-up study of recent graduates of the College of Education at the University of New Orleans was developed to continue the organized assessment program of the College. Information gathered by the investigation is intended to provide the basis for revision of the undergraduate teacher education program and the development of effective…

This project was an effort to field test a theoretical model suggested in an American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education publication entitled "An Illustrated Model for the Evaluation of Teacher Education Graduates." The model was designed to obtain objective, quantifiable data on graduates of the teacher preparation program of Western…

The University of North Dakota's Center for Teaching and Learning has developed a program to help monocultural preservice teachers achieve increased understanding of others and participate in activities which expand their cultural horizons in terms of personal identification, comfort, openness, and sensitivity toward diverse cultural groups and…

This article offers systematic procedures for designing and conducting follow-up studies of teacher education graduates. Also offered are recommendations for formulating instrument questions and scales, determining questionnaire length and appearance, writing the cover letter, planning the follow-up reminder procedures, and comparing respondents…

H. Prentice Baptiste presents personal theories on multicultural education and the role of higher education institutions in an interview with the author. The pluralistic thrust in education is discussed. (DF)

Middle grades science teachers need professional support in practice as they implement new inquiry-based science. Professional development schools can provide this bottom-up support through connecting preservice and inservice teacher education programs in classroom practice. In this study, coteaching arrangements with secondary science education…

Legislative mandates and reforms hold universities accountable for student certification test performance. The purpose of this investigation was to determine if cumulative grade point average scores and the preprofessional academic skills test scores predict performance on elementary certification test (professional development) scores of…

Schools need collaboration to keep teachers and students learning and for the implementation of new ideas. Community college students who strive to become teachers can learn to collaborate with colleagues. Through a review of literature, this paper presents a variety of purposes, definitions, types and methods of collaboration. A practical guide…

A preliminary report is given of a survey of students in teacher education programs. The surveyed students (N=729) were drawn from three strata; baccalaureate degree only; baccalaureate, masters, and 6-year; and baccaluareate, masters, 6-year, and doctorate. The demographic characteristics of students from the three strata are compared.…

This survey of placement of teacher education graduates presents the forms used in the survey and the composite results. It is stated that out of the 500 questionnaires mailed to randomly selected teacher education graduates for the school years spanning 1969 to 1973, 320, or 64%, responded before the deadline. The document contains correspondence…

The purpose of this study was to obtain, organize, and present data of a stratified random sample of 1971 Master of Education degree recipients at West Texas State University to assist in the evaluation of the graduate program in teacher education there. The kinds of data collected were as follows: a) information obtained from official university…

Data suggest that self-selection is weeding out the poorer students in the teacher education program at Western Washington University. The grade point average of freshmen, although declining for the university as a whole, is rising in teacher education. (Author/JM)