Study examined how generalized patterns of social network ties influenced personal choices for leisure behavior. Researchers interviewed 44 people in a small Washington town regarding their participation in 25 outdoor recreation activities, weekly leisure pursuits, and interpersonal relationships. Results suggest network relationships facilitate…

New York State physical educators completed surveys regarding moonlighting. About 83 percent reported some moonlighting, and over half held several moonlighting jobs; most held multiple school jobs. The most common reasons for moonlighting during school were professional responsibility and enjoyment. They did not believe it detracted from…

To study the long-term impact of part-time inservice degrees, researchers interviewed Scottish graduates and headmasters and local education authority staff. Results indicated the degrees had a small influence on classroom performance and fundamental impact on a significant minority of teachers. Some schools created effective policies for using…

Provides a lesson plan with student worksheet for teaching the concept of geologic time to middle school students. The lesson is cited as representative of an Earth systems approach to science curriculum with emphasis on the age of the earth and the fact that its subsystems are constantly evolving. (MCO)

Provides on-task activities to fill in unexpected extra moments in elementary classes. The activities require little preparation and take 5-15 minutes to complete. There are activities for math, language arts, social science, science, critical thinking, and computer. An outer space board game is also included. (SM)

Ability grouping persists because few practical, financially feasible, and politically palatable alternatives have been explored. Built to accommodate a team of 6 teachers and 135 to 150 students, 1 Virginia middle school's parallel block scheduling plan exchanges tracking for a practical method of working with heterogeneous groups of students.…

"Women at Work," a collection of 15 essays, contributes to our understanding of women's working lives and presents a useful opportunity to view British evidence in this field. Although women's absolute lifetime earnings will always be lower than men's, educated women may enjoy a greater advantage than men and face less market…

Results of a study of part-time college faculty (a growing population now constituting more than 35% of teaching faculty in the United States) provide a profile of their characteristics, motivations, employment patterns, and relationships with their institutions. Suggestions are made for colleges and universities to adapt their policies to this…

Two studies, each involving four intermediate grade students with learning disabilities, examined the differential effects of attention monitoring and performance monitoring on spelling study behaviors and story writing behaviors. Both interventions had a positive impact; neither was clearly or consistently superior to the other. (Author/JDD)

Twenty-nine Australian children (ages 6-9) with learning difficulties participated in 23-week programs involving music, storytelling, or both. Students participating in the programs improved in listening comprehension, phonological processing, and receptive vocabulary skills. Some effects were not evident until posttesting seven weeks after…

The 43rd annual survey of 1993 library school graduates provides 10 statistical tables including job status; placements and salaries by region; placements by sex and library type; placements and salaries by state; special libraries placements; minority placement salaries; average salary index of starting positions, 1985-93; and comparison of…

A longitudinal study of academic achievement among 4,968 secondary students in Botswana found time in school to be the best predictor of achievement. Findings also suggest that supplementary reading materials, inservice training, and selected teaching practices may be boosting mean achievement and may help explain variation among pupils.…

Choice of leisure activity expressed by students and one parent each from four countries supports a three-dimensional factor structure of leisure dimensions, identified as aesthetic-intellectual, sports, and social-entertainment. Subjects were 642 U.S., 174 French, 243 Danish, and 139 New Zealand college students and their parents. (SLD)

A conceptual framework for short-term and long-term speech-sound normalization research is presented, and 1-year normalization outcomes for the 54 children described in EC 609 708 are reported. Although certain individual speech variables were significantly associated with normalization, there were no speech, prosody-voice, or risk-factor…

Eye-movement registration was used to examine the influence of the semantic complexity of addition and subtraction word problems on response time and eye-fixation patterns of 10 high-ability and 10 low-ability second graders. Data provide evidence of the crucial role of semantic factors in word problem solving. (SLD)