Four descriptions of a hypothetical professor were randomly distributed to 320 randomly selected introductory psychology students. Students indicated expected degree of satisfaction with hypothetical professor, responded to a dogmatism scale, and completed a structure or interpersonal directiveness subscale to show profile of professors with whom…

In addition to countering the arguments of Gray and Satterly in their article, "A Chapter of Errors", this research presents an overview of the latest research, all of which provides supporting evidence for the results and issues raised in "Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress". (Author/RK)

Recommends that teachers be more empathetic with their students, treating them as they would wish to be treated themselves. Compares classroom teaching with teacher education classes. (NKA)

This article offers four models of what may be going wrong in the transmission of thinking skills from textbooks and teachers to students. Sources of the problem are identified and possible solutions, alternatives, and strategies of "teaching for thinking" are described. (JL)

Results are presented from 339 respondents to a poll surveying teacher opinions of basal readers. Questions deal with strengths and weaknesses of basal readers, use of workbooks, school district requirements, and teacher's manuals. Results are presented.

Argues that students and teachers should be matched according to similar learning and teaching styles in order to facilitate students' learning. (SRT)

Describes the inservice teacher training program developed by the Lennox School District for first- and second-year teachers and experienced teachers new to the district. It combines training workshops with a continuing teacher/coach relationship emphasizing positive reinforcement. (MD)

This study extends earlier work on parental teaching style and examines effects of parental intrusiveness on a subsequent task. Analysis of audio recordings of 22 Caucasian middle-class parent-child dyads audiotaped over a two-week period while dyads were learning aspects of LOGO computer programing showed that children of directive parents…

Discusses the appropriateness of the process method for the business writer. Describes how the method might be taught in a business communication course. (JD)

Compositions of 10 high-knowledge and 10 low-knowledge fourth-grade students taught by either academically-oriented or cognitive developmentally-oriented teachers were analyzed in terms of four types of propositions they contained to assess the relative influence of writers' prior knowledge and teachers' classroom lesson structure on students'…

Provides ideas for sharpening the focus of teacher-moderated discussions in history classes. Asserts that students must be presented with a question that elicits solution of a problem ("Why did Lincoln wait so long before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation?") rather than factual recall ("What is the Emancipation Proclamation?"). Includes model…

Examines the relationship that might exist between knowledge structure and learning and teaching styles. Discussion includes the Psycho-Epistemic Profile, which measures the process of knowing, and a study of relationships between teachers' and students' psycho-epistemic styles and preferred subject matter, and differences between psycho-epistemic…

Reviews David Kolb's Experiential Learning Model, stressing its potential for developing or redesigning curricula for adult learners to include learning modes focusing on concrete experience, active experimentation, reflective observation, and abstract conceptualization. Offers a checklist for assessing which modes are accommodated by an…

Study results suggest that student achievement and attitudes toward economics at the college level might be improved by a better match between the teaching style of instructors and the learning style of students. (Author/RM)