General education and special education teacher candidates lack experience in collaborating with each other as colleagues; however, upon graduating and entering their own classrooms, most are expected to know how to provide services to students with disabilities in the general classroom. This study describes the efforts of two professors, one in…

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…

Math anxiety levels and performance outcomes were compared for bilingual and monolingual community college Intermediate Algebra students attending a culturally diverse urban commuter college. Participants (N = 618, 250 men, 368 women; 361 monolingual, 257 bilingual) completed the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) and a demographics instrument.…

Elementary education majors (n=22) in a science methods course at a small liberal arts college in the U.S. Midwest were asked to write a paper about science in their own lives. Based upon their writings, the students were categorized according to the five ways of knowing described by Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, and Tarule: silence, received,…

The use of corporal punishment within the schools remains a controversial issue. Scholastic physical punishment is supposedly administered in a purposeful, premeditated manner according to a given set of contingencies revolving around school-rule infractions. According to some experts, the continuous general support for administering corporal…

The study concerns whether graduate students could improve the accuracy of their self-evaluations of performance in a statistics class over a semester when feedback was provided and whether such accuracy was related to their Miller Analogies Test scores. (Author/KM)

The purpose of this study was to derive a reliable system for classifying the 1,425 responses of over 800 teacher education candidates to a survey regarding adjectives used to describe teacher characteristics. Previous research had indicated five major themes underlying the adjectives teacher candidates think their students will use in describing…

Annotated bibliographies of 238 education theses for masters and doctoral degrees in Australia for 1982 are presented. Included for each thesis are the author, title, date, abstract, index terms, the degree for which the thesis was submitted, and the awarding institution. A subject and author index is also included. The index terms or descriptors…

In view of the need for open-mindedness in the instruction of new curricular approaches, such as the analysis of public issues, these studies survey pre-service social studies teachers to discover their positions relative to other pre-service subject teachers in strength of authoritarian and dogmatic characteristics. (JH)

This longitudinal study of beginning teachers in Kentucky yields a number of characteristics useful in identifying persons most likely to obtain and retain teaching positions in secondary education. The Western Kentucky University Teacher Preparation Evaluation Program (TPEP), begun in 1971, follows careers of elementary and secondary school…

THE COORDINATED EFFORTS OF A TEAM OF EDUCATORS FROM THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, AND PERSONNEL AT FOUR SCHOOLS IN THE BLOOMINGTON METROPOLITAN SYSTEM TO PROVIDE TEACHER AIDE EXPERIENCES FOR ELEMENTARY EDUCATION MAJORS AS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TEACHING PROGRAM THROUGH CLASSROOM OBSERVATIONS, WORK WITH INDIVIDUAL PUPILS, SMALL-GROUP…

An experiment was designed to investigate the effects of classroom observation on the attitudes of education majors toward selected aspects of teaching. Three major hypotheses were considered: (1) that observation of classes would result in a significant change in student attitudes toward selected aspects of teaching, (2) that student attitudes…

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…

The Educational Studies Major was established in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1974. It is an individualized professional education degree program leading toward a Bachelor of Science degree in education. It is an inter-disciplinary degree option for students who wish to examine and pursue careers in a vast…

This paper provides data on the cost of educating undergraduate elementary education students enrolled in the University of Georgia College of Education in 1967-68. Introductory sections describe review of the literature and procedures for determining unit cost through cost allocation based on the earned quarter hour of credit. Data, presented in…