Investigated faculty and students' factual knowledge of a university counseling center (CC). Faculty (N=88) and student (N=79) responses to a questionnaire showed that faculty understood the model of comprehensive mental health services offered by the CC, but students viewed the CC more as a guidance service. (BH)

A second-grader's science project examined effects on student attitudes of teaching 19 second grade students about mental retardation. She found that instruction resulted in increased positive attitudes compared to no significant differences in the attitudes of control Ss. (CL)

A legal studies program improved the legal knowledge of 12 educable mentally retarded adolescents in a special school. An analysis of the data from pre- to follow-up test revealed a significant gain in legal knowledge. (Author/CL)

The results indicate that, while there is consonance between the self-perceived skills and knowledge of special educators and how regular educators view them, there is an apparent dissonance between how regular educators view themselves and special educators' perceptions of regular elementary teachers. (Author)

Provides an instrument (informal inventory) that was developed for teachers to assess their knowledge of children's books. (An answer key and suggestions for maintenance appear at the conclusion of the inventory.) (HOD)

Utilizing a sample of 482 high school seniors, this research further investigates the relationship between four different kinds of attitudes and two types of knowledge (ecological and trade-off) relevant to environmental issues. Research and analyses procedures are detailed. Results indicate that knowledge appears to lead to moderation of…

Educators from around the state, with the help of The Vermont Institutes, developed Vermont Health Grade Cluster Expectations as a means to identify the health content knowledge and skills expected of all students for local assessment required under Act 68. This work was accomplished using "Vermont's Framework of Standards and Learning…

This paper redefines and clarifies the standpoints of environmental attitudes (EA), knowledge scales (EK), and affiliated studies. Considering the quality of environmental education studies, this paper tries to give a sharp and concrete message to environmental science educators and researchers and strengthen the paths of environmental education…

This booklet is about the capacities and resources that people need to succeed in today's economy. They include: (1) Knowledge, skills, and experience that are needed to get a job and move up; (2) Jobs and the benefits they provide beyond a paycheck, and also resources that boost income when earnings fall short or jobs are not available; and (3)…

The organization of knowledge has been identified as a crucial element for the facilitation of learning based on theories of teaching for understanding, information processing, schemata development, and constructivism. This study reports on the validation of a teaching and learning tool through an investigation in which 44 college students…

This paper provides information on a project by the Uganda Mathematical Society (UMS) that aims to popularize mathematics in Uganda. UMS believes that if parents learn mathematics (primary and secondary), they will be able to help their children themselves instead of hiring others to coach their children as is the practice today. Another way to…

Every spring the Career Center at the John H. Lounsbury School of Education of Georgia College and State University sponsors a job fair and invites recruiters for school systems to meet students. Recruiters, many of whom have worked with the college's graduates in the past, are asked to complete a questionnaire that includes a need analysis and a…

Researchers spend much time and effort developing measures, including measures of students? conceptual knowledge. In an effort to make such assessments easier to design, the Principled Assessment Designs for Inquiry (PADI) project has developed a framework for designing tasks and to illustrate that its use has ?reverse engineered? several …

Paper presents a two-fold operational partition of the structures involved in characterizing instructional knowledge. (Author)

Knowledge achievement comparisons in the areas of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs were made between high school students who received the Curriculum Guide program and comparable students receiving a traditional program. Results evidenced a significantly higher score for the experimental group and indicated that the program appears more effective for…