The establishment and validation of a learning hierarchy for use in the teaching of selected principles and strategies was useful in judging a conditional argument in the familiar content domain. Preservice elementary teachers were instructed in two basic skills: (1) translating a simple argument from verbal to symbolic form, and (2) judging the…

Knowledge about guns and the relation between play with guns and aggressivity was assessed in a group of 5-9 year old children. Each child was questioned about his gun play and his understanding of guns after he was shown a display of two toy and two real guns. This data was then correlated with a teacher rating of aggression for each child.…

A study was conducted to determine the feasibility of using proficiency modules (PMs) to instruct students in an elementary science education class. A PM entitled "Magnetism, Electricity, Heat and Microscopic Viewing in Science Instruction" was prepared which described performance behaviors and a variety of learning activities that would…

Reports on the development of a course in modern mathematics for elementary school teachers. The subject matter for the course is concentrated on whole numbers, integers, and rational numbers. Ideas of logic and set theory are brought into the discussion incidently as needed for developing the number systems. Part 1 of the course is a brief essay…

The principal focus of this paper is the presentation and interpretation of questionnaire data obtained from one hundred students who were enrolled in a graduate-level science education course for elementary school teachers. The objectives of the course are such that each enrolled should: (1) become aware of and attuned to current emphasis in…

The population for which this instructional program has been found to be effective includes preservice and inservice elementary teachers who teach science. At the end of this instructional module, the participants should be able to: (1) given a set of data and a set of statements about the data, distinguish between those statements of fact and…

The most important feature of this 2-year elementary teacher education program, begun in 1966, is the earlier and more direct exposure it offers to inner-city education. To take place before student teaching, it provides for 2 days per week to be spent at one of 12 local cooperating elementary schools, studying teaching methods in specific…

This guide describes the content of a proposed mathematics course for prospective elementary school teachers. It is the result of a two-year study at Indiana University in which three existing courses were integrated and coordinated. For each unit of instruction, there are (1) remarks for motivation of study, (2) remarks on methods of teaching,…

Phase 2 of Project IN-STEP was conducted to revise, refine, and conduct further field testing of a new inservice teacher education model. The method developed (in Phase 1--see ED 003 905 for report) is an individualized, multi-media approach. Revision activities, based on feedback provided for Phase 1, include the remaking of six videotape…

The predominant use of female teachers in the elementary school is one of the variables to which the inferior learning rates of males in elementary school has been attributed. The present study was designed to determine the effect of the sex of the teacher/experimenter on the learning of a reading-like paired associate task by children in two…

An integrated set of summer workshops was conducted for elementary teachers in the River Rouge, Michigan, School District (for eight teachers and eight aides from each of grades 1, 2, and 3 representing all four elementary schools) to introduce them to and provide practice in selected innovative techniques for the management of classroom behavior…

A study explored the relationships between 1) congruence of attitudes between principals and teacher candidates with different job qualifications, and 2) principals' attraction to teacher candidates. Concern was to test relationships expressed in Newcomb's ABX system of interpersonal attraction. In a simulated selection situation, elementary…

This descriptive analysis of Michigan State's Student Teacher Education Project (STEP) focuses on the problems encountered in its acceptance and first five years of operation. Basic data for the analysis was obtained from systematic evaluation interviews with students, their instructors and supervisors, and members of the project staff. Chapter 1…

A summer institute was designed to provide 22 certified elementary and secondary social science teachers the opportunity to focus upon concepts and development principles in the methods of learning games and instructional simulation. The 4-week schedule of learning and workshop activities provided a mix of concepts and practice, development and…

By using this instructional module the participants should be able to: (1) predict the behavior of two magnets prior to their being placed close to each other; (2) identify and describe the magnetic forces acting on a bar magnet that is free to rotate; (3) demonstrate a method for determining the lines of force in a magnetic field; (4) identify…