This paper reports on the teaching of reflective thinking skills to a cross-cultural class of school of education students. The paper relates the cultural constraints and cross-cultural responses brought to light by the process of instruction and by the reaction of students to a course on the Holocaust. The goal of Multicultural Education is to…

This study determined whether or not there were certain aspects of cognitive/personality style which affected prospective teachers' choice of rule-example order in teaching mathematics. Seventy undergraduate elementary education majors were given the Paragraph Completion Test which measures conceptual level and the Group Embedded Figures Test…

This investigation was conducted to determine the construct validity of the Teaching Situation Reaction Test (TSRT), which is used to assess preservice education students' reactions to teaching situations. (The testee responds by ranking four answers or options provided for each question regarding the situation.) Specifically, the study…

The Lincoln Parish School Board, with assistance from the Gulf South Research Institute staff, conducted a 10-week pilot student-teacher aide program in which 72 college education majors worked as teacher aides in eight high schools and elementary schools for approximately 10 hours a week at $1.50 per hour. Consultants for the program were hired…

Three hundred and thirty-one undergraduates in education who had not taken educational measurement rated 47 course objectives for importance and interest. Median ratings were positive or neutral for all items. Importance and interest were highly related. The most favored items involved critical analysis of or alternative approaches to measurement…

The purpose of this study was to determine if behavior recording strategies in a field setting would increase the verbal responsiveness of prospective teachers participating in informal, small group discussions. The sample consisted of 192 male and female undergraduate education majors enrolled in an introductory educational psychology course.…

Education students can as early as their freshman and sophomore years be engaged in meaningful field experiences designed to help them make more intelligent career decisions based upon realistic understanding and assessments of needed skills and attitudes. (JD)

The opinions of preservice teachers are presented to illustrate the author's feeling that the education profession, faced with taxpayer resistance to increased educational costs, must become more aware of profit/loss ratios and more accountable. (MB)

This paper reports the effects of university dental health instruction upon the subsequent instructional behavior of student teachers. (RC)

Gives examples of what advanced education students remember about four facets of their own reading instruction--concepts of the construct "reading," early instructional techniques, development of their interest in reading, and qualities they liked and disliked in their teachers. (JM)

A sample of 578 bachelor of education students randomly chosen from three Nigerian universities were surveyed during the 1982-83 school year to determine the social origins of student teachers in Nigeria. Findings are presented. (Author/MT)

Two hundred thirty-four education majors ranging from 19 to more than 35 years filled out questionnaires describing their reasons for becoming teachers. Explanations other than altruism for choosing teaching as a career are suggested, and implications for teacher education are discussed. (MT)

Seventy-three preservice elementary teachers and 41 experienced elementary teachers in the same state participated in a study to examine whether prospective teachers measure at the same conative level as practicing teachers. No significant difference was found, and three possible explanations are offered. (MT)

Few significant differences in the beliefs of first-year education students (n=48), first-year arts students (n=36), and first-year science students (n=37) toward education, teaching, and students were found on an attitude scale constructed by interviewing 10 freshman education students. Education students tended to enter their program with…

A study determined the effects of signalling and note taking on recall of information and top level structure of text under immediate and delayed conditions. The subjects (180 undergraduate education students) were randomly assigned to one of four treatment conditions--signals/notes, signals/no notes, no signals/notes, or no signals/no notes.…