Due to the time constraints of intensive online courses, instructional design strategies should be modified in order to retain the quality of learning without reducing the quantity of the course content. This paper presents how a blended approach combining objectivist and constructivist instructional strategies was used in the design of an…

Candidate selection considerations necessary in the development of model teacher education programs are presented in this paper. The physical, mental, and personal areas which must be assessed and evaluated are discussed as a framework for stating specific selection criteria for the particular institution developing the program. Some suggested…

Three successive groups of education students enrolled in a fifth year M.Ed. program were tested in a longitudinal study for differences between their attitudes after completing the academic portion of the program (first semester) and after completing internship (second semester), which involved full teaching responsibility along with biweekly…

Two experiments were performed to investigate how a stimulus (a film with scenes either in or out of order) in combination with a task (recalling facts or generating hypotheses about the film) affect whether or not a person responds to the stimulus with more than one discrete answer or thought (subjective response uncertainty). Specifically, this…

Word associations to 51 stimulus words selected from the Kent and Rosanoff stimulus list were obtained from 110 graduate and 75 undergraduate teacher trainees. Associations were analyzed so that comparisons between teacher-trainee associations and several adult normative collections could be made. Response homogeneity was found to increase…

Study found that education majors who were most satisfied with student teaching experience were those rated average" by their supervisors. Outstanding" and unsatisfactory" student teachers were dissatisfied, but for opposite reasons. (RT)

Examined the development of initial faculty identities of doctoral students in education as they transitioned to the professorate. Identified five archetypal pathways to the professorate: anointed, pilgrim, visionary, philosopher, and drifter. (EV)

This article is based on the author's doctoral dissertation, "A Basic Interpretive Analysis of Undergraduate Instrumental Music Education Majors' Approaches to Score Study in Varying Musical Contexts" (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, August 2004). The purpose of the study was to provide a holistic description of procedures and reflections…

"Introduction to Education Studies" is established as the key text for undergraduate students of education studies as well as for practitioners embarking on a higher degree. The book provides a thorough grounding for students new to the subject without assuming a substantial prior knowledge of the area. It also takes a multidisciplinary approach…

The Inspire Peer Mentor Program (Inspire) operates of Flinders University in the southern suburbs of Adelaide, and has received funding from the Department of Family and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA). The experience gained during the past three years has indicated that a mentoring program between the University and schools…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the Big Five personality factors, measured by the NEO Personality Inventory Five-Factor Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992), and vocational confidence across Holland's hexagon, measured by the Skills Confidence Inventory (SCI; Betz, Borgen, & Harmon, 2005), were useful in discriminating among…

This paper reports on a study of the development of information searching expertise by 12 postgraduate research students. Six of the students were studying education, and six were studying engineering. The paper focuses on the students' perception of the importance of searching skills and the growth of their knowledge with these skills as they…