Physical Education students tended to be mesomorphic, stable extroverts, with driving, aggressive social responses and authoritarian attitudes as compared with general course college students. (Authors/MB)

Education majors are shown how to utilize library resources. (MF)

Describes program at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. (RT)

A well-planned and systematized recruitment program can make a difference in the quality of students admitted to a teacher education program. An outline for a recruitment plan is proposed, and a program at the University of Dayton (Ohio) School of Education is described. (PP)

Test scores of education majors have always been lower than those of other majors. The decline in scholastic aptitude of prospective teachers is only of consequence if it is related to the mastery of professional skills. Schools of education should recruit high-aptitude students and make them aware of career options in education. (JN)

A survey of college students preparing to become teachers was conducted to ascertain why the students had decided to become teachers. The reasons given included: the service motive, an interest in children, and an interest in performing in a leadership role. (JN)

Examines the factors that are discouraging academically able college students from becoming secondary teachers. The author argues that teacher education should remain a university-based activity in order to attract better students and to ensure that these students will be academically prepared to educate children in common schools adequately. (SR)

Attitudes toward the profession were determined among different aged teachers and students enrolled in teacher education programs. No age differences in attitudes among the teacher samples were found but intergroup differences in attitudes were found between students and teachers. These results support Neugarten's hypothesis concerning effect of…

The nature of the aptitude-treatment interaction between spatial visualization ability and instructional treatment in mathematics was investigated. No significant positive correlation was observed between the aptitude measures (spatial visualization test) and the outcome measures (algebra structures exam). (CJ)

Reviews a study of the perceived importance of 47 measurement objectives by elementary and secondary education majors who had not taken a measurement course. Suggests origins of education majors' negative attitudes about testing and considers some remedies. (JD)

Data indicate continued sex-role differentiation in perceptions of work outcomes independently of both occupational level and year of graduation. Younger graduates, regardless of sex, were less likely to be concerned with personal development through work and long-range career factors. (Author)

Using reasonable values for the parameters in both null and alternative hypotheses about covariance matrices, an optimal and feasible combination of number of subjects, significance level, and power of the test were determined for an empirical study of the measurement of musical ability. (Author/BW)

The influence of learner dialect, learner ethnicity, and an orientation to sociolinguistic awareness on preservice teachers' expectations for learners' academic performance was investigated. Results of a study support linguists' recommendations to offer sociolinguistic instruction in teacher preparation programs. (Author/GSK)

A questionnaire on discipline and classroom management was administered to 203 students at Dundee College of Education in April, 1978. Areas covered included attitudes toward teaching practice, punishments and rewards observed in schools, opinions on the college's treatment of the topic, and subjects' views on various disciplinary techniques.…