Explores the relationship between the verbal behavior of student teachers and cooperating teachers over a seven-week student teaching placement. Findings reveal no relationship either between the verbal behavior of the cooperating teacher and student teacher or between that of the student teacher model and the cooperating teacher. (Author)

Colleges have instituted and implemented study-skill courses for freshmen in an effort to increase their academic success and improve their retention rate. The student needs to use his/her personal text as the primary material for skill building. Freshmen need to foster positive self-images to the professor. (Author)

Curriculum revision is cyclical in nature. Over the years emphases shift because no one approach satisfies all the needs of a school system. However, as a curriculum moves from philosophies to program plans, to instruction, to evaluation, and to revision, new ideas are added, adopted, or adapted. (Author)

Investigates the type of individual who works and learns most effectively in a group setting. Results indicate that people who fit into Robert Bales' Upward-Positive-Forward personality type perceive the group and group activities to be more effective than do other personality types. (Author)

This study shows measured intelligence to be the best long-range predictor of success in university. Variables of age, sex, religious affiliation, marital status, type of living accommodation, and distance commuted to school account for 19 percent of variance. Implications of these results and their comparison to previous research are discussed.…

Differential effects of university supervisors and cooperating teachers as observers on the verbal behavior of student teachers were studied. The tape-recorded data showed remarkable stability over the three observer conditions--no live observer present in the classroom or either the university supervisor or the cooperating teacher present.…

Assesses the relative merit of three modes of instructor verbal behavior on student achievement. Results suggest that interacting with students outside the classroom using affective behaviors and locus of control change techniques improves student self-concept and classroom achievement. (Author)

Investigates the hypothesis that individuals perceiving threat to behavioral freedom will be motivated to restore this freedom. A study using a pretest-posttest, with-in subjects design was conducted with undergraduate freshmen as subjects. The findings did not support theoretical expectations. (Author)

Discusses the teacher consultant model as dictated by PL 94-142, Title I (ESEA), and changes in teacher education programs. Consultancy situations as they relate to these mandates and the resulting teacher consultant model are identified. The problems encountered when utilizing the consultant are discussed and guidelines are proposed. (Author)

The doctoral comprehensive examination is criticized for its potential harm to professional development because it fosters a myth of closure by encouraging students to believe that achievement of comprehensiveness is necessary to pass exams and achieve the doctorate. The comprehensive exam should be reexamined in light of its potential harm.…

Investigates student evaluations and focuses on higher education where current concerns with accountability have placed growing emphasis on the students' evaluations of their instructors. The author reviews the literature on student evaluation and discusses the merits of composite evaluation, which makes use of peer evaluations, administrative…

Occupational and transfer community college students were compared on self-acceptance levels. The transfer students had significantly higher scores than the occupational students as indicated by a one-way analysis of variance. Married students scored significantly higher than transfer and occupational students. (Author)

This instrument was developed to measure a teacher's propensity for militant behavior. Its conceptual framework reflects current developments in public education labor-management relations. It was tested for reliability and validity. The experimental index was validated by using a multitrait-multimethod validation matrix. A reliability coefficient…

Some educators argue that the grade is only as good an index as the teacher who gives it. The present educational system has instilled in the public the notion that students must show evidence that they have achieved academic experiences. Grades have become the visible index of that evidence. (Author)

Examines the effects of resume writing and professional goal-setting on locus of control scores of business college women. Findings indicate it is possible to affect locus of control orientation of college women preparing to enter the labor market by integrating contingency orientation and goal-setting strategies into a resume writing program.…