This chapter, taken from a guide to designing, implementing, and evaluating instruction and services for students with disabilities, addresses the issue of teacher collaboration. It provides information about the nature of teacher collaboration, its role in relation to special education service delivery as well as other school trends, its…

This report responds to Illinois State Board of Higher Education's policies on improving undergraduate education that called for cooperation among institutions of higher education in monitoring the academic progress, retention, and graduation of undergraduate students. The report examines the enrollment, transfer, and degree attainment patterns of…

This study compared self-recording and self-recording plus self-reinforcmeent treatments with no self-recording treatment on the spelling achievement and on-task behavior of 38 children (ages 10 to 13) with severe emotional and behavioral disorders. In the self-recording groups, subjects corrected, recorded, and graphed their daily spelling tests.…

As part of a larger project which attempted to integrate students with severe disabilities into regular recreational and leisure activities, this study used a peer interest survey to identify popular recreation activities (and thus appropriate possibilities for the target population) across a variety of age groups. The survey was completed by 619…

This report presents a summary of the 1990-91 results of the national Survey of Earned Doctorates conducted each year since 1958. Organized into three sections, the report first presents an analysis of trends in the numbers of doctorate recipients including data with regard to doctoral fields, gender, citizenship status, race and ethnicity,…

Lesson designs that have weak closure rob students of the most important part of the lesson--the time when they have the opportunity to think about and discuss what they have learned. This is the time in the lesson when students reflections is necessary for internalization of the skills covered. At the end of a lesson, a short concentrated time…

Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in the use of response latencies in psychological assessment. Some research has suggested that response times associated with answering personality and integrity questionnaires may be useful in differentiating among honest responders and individuals who are lying. Using an experimental paradigm…

This study examined the problem-solving and decision-making concepts included in the Consumer and Homemaking curricula in Illinois. Data were taken from a larger study, "Evaluating Program Outcomes: Occupation of Homemaking," conducted under the auspices of the Illinois State Board of Education. Through telephone interviews, 333 randomly…

This report provides a complete accounting of financial aid available to students at New York's degree-granting postsecondary institutions. It shows trends in financial aid from state, federal, institutional, and private sources for academic years 1987-88, 1988-99, and 1989-90. The report presents trends in total funds available to all students;…

This study manipulated the timing and control of error feedback in problem solving and examined their effects on skill acquisition by 40 undergraduate students learning to program in the computer language Lisp under four error feedback conditions. These four conditions included two types of symbol-by-symbol feedback that vary in content, a…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether varying levels of expertise would produce differences in selected indicators of effective teaching performance. Eighteen elementary physical education teachers were grouped based on stages of pedagogical expertise development as suggested by Berliner (1988). The three groups included…

There has been considerable debate regarding the consequences of students working part time while attending school. This study was conducted to compare teachers' perceptions of work impacts with other measures of students' academic performance and involvement. Surveys were completed by 172 high school students and 47 teachers and administrators.…

A profile is provided of the 16 Oregon community colleges and their students, personnel, finances, and services for the academic year 1989-90. First, a listing provides the address, phone number, and chief administrative officer of each college. The next section focuses on the colleges' students, providing numerous tables on such topics as:…

This discussion of methods used to assess the effectiveness of training for U.S. Army personnel identifies various types of training, describes methods currently used, and suggests ways of improving the assessment process. The methodology and results of assessments of effectiveness, including the costs associated with the level of performance, are…

A student log book for outdoor education was developed to aid Oakland County (Michigan) teachers and supervisors of outdoor education in preparing student campers for their role and responsibilities in the total program. A sample letter to sixth graders explains the purpose of the booklet. General camp rules (10) are presented, followed by 6 woods…