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Los Angeles Unified School District, CA. Research and Evaluation Branch. – 1986
This report describes the activities and research directions taken during the second year of an anticipated four-school-year study that attempts to identify effective instructional practices in Chapter 1 junior high schools in Los Angeles (California). The report is divided into four sections. Section 1 reviews the purposes of the study and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, English Instruction, Federal Programs, Instructional Materials
Mertens, Donna M.; Kluwin, Thomas N. – 1986
The education process of hearing-impaired students in 18 public secondary mathematics classrooms was examined in order to account for achievement and social adjustment differences between 11 mainstreamed and 7 self-contained classrooms. The classrooms were compared on the following dimensions: (1) social interactions among students, (2) teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Communication, Expectation, Hearing Impairments
Hirst, Walter Allen; Bailey, Gerald D. – 1983
A study was conducted to determine the perceptions of community college teachers in Kansas of the competencies required for effective teaching. Questionnaires were sent to a random sample of 225 full-time instructors at 19 Kansas community colleges soliciting faculty opinions of the importance of 70 teaching competencies, organized into categories…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Community Colleges, Course Content
Askins, Billy E. – 1983
A program of self-evaluation was developed for teachers to use in creating a personal profile which could become the basis for designing a long-range professional development program. Seven areas for self-assessment were philosophical belief system, personality traits, interpersonal awareness traits, self-concept, learning style, teaching style,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Interpersonal Competence, Measures (Individuals)
Metz, Mary Haywood – 1978
In an ethnographic study of three recently desegregated junior high schools, the pressures placed upon teachers by students in different academic tracks were analyzed. Students in each track were grouped homogeneously in terms of race, social class and academic performance. The methodology of this study consisted of utilizing students' responses…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Black Students, Case Studies, Desegregation Effects
Hamm, Russell L. – 1981
An examination of the grounds for fundamental beliefs about education and the basic concepts, doctrines, and practices that express such beliefs is presented. The overall objective of the book is to provide teachers with an insight into why and what they are teaching, and how these purposes relate to the school, the values of the community, and…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Educational Theories
Verhoeven, Ad F. M. – 1978
A research program to investigate interactions of instruction styles and learner characteristics related to learning results in junior high schools is described. Data was gathered both by observation of the teacher in the classroom and by responses of pupils on their perceptions of the teacher. Different teaching styles are defined and referred to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Educational Research
Rupley, William H.; McNamara, James F. – 1978
A study was conducted to investigate selected reading instruction process variables employed by third and sixth grade teachers and their effect on pupils' reading achievement, to explore the difference between third and sixth grade teachers' reading instruction process variables, and to investigate the relationship between selected pupil variables…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 3
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Perreault, Gerri – 1979
Modern physics and feminism are two seemingly disparate areas of human endeavor that pose important alternatives to and transformations of contemporary world views. Modern physics is a radical shift from the world view of classical physics, and feminism is a radical shift from the world view of patriarchy. Both emphasize interrelatedness and…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
TUSKA, SHIRLEY A.; WRIGHT, BENJAMIN D. – 1967
EXPLORATION OF PERSONALITY ORIENTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE GRADE LEVEL AT WHICH THE PROSPECTIVE TEACHER INTENDS TO TEACH INQUIRED INTO CHILDHOOD RECOLLECTIONS. 508 WOMEN ENROLLED IN 12 TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS COMPLETED A LOCALLY DEVELOPED SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL QUESTIONNAIRE. THOSE INTENDING TO TEACH AT LOWER SCHOOL LEVELS IDENTIFIED WITH THEIR…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Education Majors, Elementary School Teachers, Fathers
Wray, Rosanne; Yaun, Peter H. – 1980
Two teacher educators at the College of Charleston (South Carolina) undertook a project to learn more about what happens in a public high school classroom, in order to make their college instruction more realistic. The instructors taught an advanced senior English class in an inner city high school, and a group of college students from Education…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, College School Cooperation, Education Majors, Educational Objectives
Hillison, John H.; Vogler, Daniel E. – 1980
As part of a series dealing with competency-based education, this monograph explores the optimum selection and utilization of instructional activities, materials, and methods. The monograph first discusses the responsibility of the instructor to plan learning activities that reinforce targeted performance competencies, and then presents a…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Chalkboards, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
Verbist, R., Ed.; And Others – Scientia Paedagogiea Experimentalis, 1978
This journal of educational research contains five papers written by a group of international authors. The first is a study of change in professional attitudes of student teachers that investigated the nature and extent of the change in their professional attitudes, and compared sex differences. The second paper is a technical examination of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Attitude Change, Educational Objectives
Bennett, Lula M. – 1977
To test the similarity of student and instructor perceptions of the learning approaches used by particular instructors in the classroom, teachers and students (n=138) of ten social science classes at Valencia Community College (Florida) responded to a questionnaire. Items tested the instructors' application of the learning theories of Pavlov,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction, Community Colleges
Wholihan, John; Ward, John – 1977
A case writers workshop was sponsored by the Intercollegiate Case Clearing House to encourage case development by business faculty in the midwest. An afternoon discussion on teaching by the case method used a case called "The Vessal Apparel Shop" by Philip M. Van Auken. The 40 attendees were divided into two groups of 20; one group was instructed…
Descriptors: Business Education Teachers, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Classroom Techniques
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