A review of the literature indicates the recent popularity of student evaluation of faculty in (1) providing feedback to faculty so that they can modify or improve their instruction; (2) acquiring information to be used in evaluating faculty, and in making tenure and promotion decisions; (3) acquiring information to be disseminated to students so…

Open classroom systems frequently use peer tutoring techniques as a means of individualizing instruction. This study investigated the effects of three variables on tutor and tutee performance: (1) the achievement level of the tutor; (2) brief tutor training in reinforcement and corrective feedback procedures; and (3) tutor expectancy about tutee…

The two studies reported in this paper extend the knowledge about the effects of longer field experience with multiple role models (supervising teachers) upon student teachers' value orientations toward education and schooling. Previous research indicates that student teachers tend to adopt the values and attitudes toward education modeled for…

Classroom management is one of the most perplexing problems facing teacher educators and teachers. Teacher educators promote sound theories of how to acquire and demonstrate various competencies of classroom management but unsuccessfully relate these theories to the realities of the classroom. It is helpful to approach the problem of classroom…

This study was conducted to determine if student evaluations of faculty are affected by the characteristics of the teacher, the student, and the class. Each instructor was asked to answer questions indicating personal warmth, professorial rank, years of teaching experience, sex, and class size. Students were asked to complete the Instructional…

The development of a Competency Based Teacher Certification System is a cooperative effort of the Carroll County System and the School of Education, West Georgia College, supported by a grant from the Georgia State Department of Education. As a step toward solving the problem of recertifying teachers who possess basic credentials and have taught…

Extension classes student characteristics for Continuing Education and Extension, University of Minnesota, are presented and provide a basis for future program planning. Detailed descriptions and 22 supplemental tables are presented regarding: patterns of registration, span of attendance, courses registered for and completed, educational…

The research aimed at determining the extent to which two variables, self-concept and response variability, are related to one of the principal components of Fiedler's Contingency Model of leadership, the Esteem for the Least Preferred Coworker (LPC) instrument. Sixty extension workers in the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program in New…

This paper discusses the theoretical assumptions of the triadic method, the structure of the triad, and the processes involved in triadic supervision. The triadic method represents an attempt to create a means of supervision which will help counseling practicum students develop a more positive attitude toward supervision; will enable them to…

The purpose of this essay is to expand the conceptual content of folkloric performance as a communicative phenomenon, as spoken art. Performance is seen as representing an interpretive frame, whose nature may vary. This framing is accomplished through the use of culturally conventionalized metacommunication (communication about communication),…

The materials contained in this package are designed to aid Community College of Vermont (CCV) associate degree students in the development and implementation of their own written, individualized, competence-based learning contracts. As development of the contract requires both assessment of prior learning and planning for sponsored learning, the…

This discussion of the Pennsylvania Model Project follows a flow chart to cover all aspects of the program: mission, awareness and understanding, advantages and disadvantages, commitment, needs assessment, isolation of problems, setting priorities, assessing the present program, reevaluation of priorities, planning staff allocation, goals and…

The document is the second of a five-part series focusing in minute detail on the processes involved in the formulation of an instructional systems development (ISD) program for military interservice training that will adequately train individuals to do a particular job. Phase II, Design, is concerned with designing instructional materials based…

To determine possible implications of sex differences that might be useful for educators planning accelerated programs for mathematically gifted students, four measures of values and career-related interests were administered to three groups (totaling 78 Ss) of gifted seventh grade girls and boys. Results indicated that male Ss showed strong…

While debates over the heritability of IQ and the potential for culture bias in measuring instruments have generated much research and public comment, it is also possible to investigate the significance of interracial differences in mean IQ by ignoring both the foregoing issues and instead examining the social psychology of the test situation…