Background: Within the realm of public education, there is a well-known "knowledge to practice gap" on current conceptions of classroom assessment. A collaborative research project undertaken by the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and a research team at Queen's University explored the roots of this gap from the…

Purpose of this study is to examine the Foundation course experience of Dip.A.D. students at a provincial college and to relate it to the degree of satisfaction felt on their Diploma course. (Author)

The results of research on the attitudes and degrees of contentment of college students are discussed. (CK)

Investigation indicates that there are weaknesses in the present system of teaching practice assessment, particularly in the diversity of the methods of assessment. (Authors)

Examines basic attitudes of the teacher toward teaching reading. (RK)

Explains genetic algorithms, a means of generating logical rules that predict one variable by relating it to others. Describes how they can be applied to analysis of survey data. (SK)

The results of a survey of student preferences in literature are presented. (CK)

How satisfied is the Australian teacher with his job and how committed is he to teaching? This paper reports the results of an investigation into the morale within the teaching profession. (Author)

The aim was to determine whether attendance at a coeducational or single-sex school was associated signigicantly with happiness of marriage. (Author)

An attempt was made to ascertain some of the main differences in attitudes towards school between offenders and non-offenders, specifically school-oriented pupils, nonchalant pupils and anti-school pupils attending comprehensive schools in high delinquency areas. (Author/RK)

The present study supports the finding of Smithers and Carlisle (1970) that many students in colleges of education would ideally have preferred a career other than teaching. (Author)

Ninety-two ordinal variables discriminated between secondary teachers divided according to their familiarity with or adoption of materials from 17 new science curriculum projects. (Author)

The educational needs of mentally handicapped children in the 'new' day special schools were examined from three major perspectives. (Author/RK)

Many aspects of multiracial education were investigated. This second part of a two-part article reports on those items which concerned teachers' appraisals of various aspects of ethnic minority and indigenous pupils, and the overall effects of the multiracial composition of the school on the teacher. (Author/RK)

Paper reports some of the early findings of a study of subject specialization at school based on postal questionnaires completed by 200 former grant recipients. (Author)