This document includes two technical appendices that accompany the full report, "English as a Second Language in California's Community Colleges." The two appendixes include: (1) Key terms, data and methods; and (2) Figures and tables. [These appendices were written with research support from Sergio Sanchez and Stephanie Pulles. For the…

Growing body of studies has stressed the role of research in teacher education since conducting research informs both teachers and students, and contributes to professional skills. Therefore, this study aimed to find out and compare the perspectives of pre-service and in-service English teachers in an EFL context with regard to finding sufficient…

The evidence that teacher preparation programs have an impact on teacher quality is often limited. Progress in research on this topic will remain rather limited in its influence on practice until more proximal measures of teacher education outcomes can be established. The dearth of variables to measure the impact of teacher preparation programs on…

We compare beginning special and general education teachers' access to school-based colleagues. Our findings demonstrate that colleague relationships are critical for the experiences of beginning teachers, as are the school organizational norms that these beginning teachers experience. For special education teachers in particular, perception of…

This study investigated the extent to which student performance and teacher perception of student performance affect placement in eighth-grade mathematics classes for students with disabilities. Authors used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten dataset to investigate how each of the following factors predicted placement in…

Establishing reliable indicators of the current state of school crime and safety across the nation and regularly updating and monitoring these indicators is important in ensuring the safety of our nation's students. This is the aim of "Indicators of School Crime and Safety." This report is the fifteenth in a series of annual publications…

The 2017 edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 53rd in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The "Digest" has been issued annually except for combined editions for the years 1977-78, 1983-84, and 1985-86. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field…

The attitudes of teachers of the middle grades (grades 6, 7, and 8) are compared, along various dimensions, to those of elementary and high school teachers in this study. The sample consisted of 73 graduates of the University of Cincinnati teacher education programs employed as teachers in the metropolitan Cincinnati (Ohio) area. All of the…

Examines and compares the ways in which teachers in two school systems in Indiana think about computers and actually use them for instruction. Guidelines are provided that suggest what school systems could do to make a stronger commitment to instructional computing. (Contains eight references.) (LRW)

Accompanied by 18 tables, this article compares a 1984 survey of Dade County (Florida) teachers' attitudes toward work and workplace with Dan Lortie's 1964 baseline study, "Schoolteacher." Demographically, today's teachers are older, more experienced, better-educated, and more ethnically diverse than their 1964 counterparts; they also…

Describes a study conducted to determine prevalence of educational software field testing by producers, number of teachers and students participating, evaluation criteria used, whether documentation includes field test results, field test value, and other evaluation methods utilized during product development. Textbook versus software evaluation,…

Pupil control ideology is conceptualized in terms of a continuum ranging from custodialism at one extreme to humanism at the other extreme. (Authors/MB)

This study made an assessment of openness as viewed by administrators, teachers, and students. (Author)

The focus of this paper is on groups of teachers classified according to self-reported national and/or racial heritage. The problem studied was simply notation of similarities and differences among mean scores of groups of in-service teachers in the U.S.A. when the teachers were so classified. Ss were over 3,000 in-service teachers from the 50…

A study to evaluate four different black and white slow-scan television (SSTV) systems as information delivery systems was conducted using four classes of university students, one at the graduate level and three at the undergraduate level. Each class viewed videotaped examples from the four SSTV systems during one class period, and were asked to…