This study found no statistically significant relationship between engineering technology students' (N=64) performances in classroom instruction and supervised industrial work experiences or between their performances during the different periods of supervised industrial work-experience. These and other results are discussed. Background…

Presents results from a Curriculum Research for Agricultural Education survey to 885 staff members on such staff development activities as conferences, academic study, and in-house provisions. Analysis of quantity, event type, activity type, and staff level indicates a need for review of staff development in agricultural education. (DH)

Surveyed the sponsorship of engineering students by employers by collecting data related to: engineering departments; sponsoring and non-sponsoring employers; student competition for sponsorship; and possible course/university restrictions by employers. Employers offering sponsorships consider them to be of great value in ensuring supplies of…

Analyzes curricular implications regarding theoretical versus applicative preferences of students (n=119) studying a scientific-technological subject. A major conclusion relating to the curriculum designers and implementors was that even students who have difficulties with theoretical subjects stand a chance of coping with the demands of the…

Examines the following hypotheses: (1) a relationship exists between school achievement and success in first year university physics; (2) tertiary success is a function of the motivation and metacognitive strategies of the learners; and (3) a weighted combination of indicators will allow significant discrimination between levels of tertiary…

Reports on gender differences in the perceptions of General Certificate of Secondary Education and A level pupils toward technology-based courses. The study involving 90 male and 94 female pupils revealed that technology is perceived as being similar to science subjects rather than to craft subjects and both group's perceptions of technology are…

Analyzes construct validity of two different methods of assessing practical skills in advanced level biology by considering how candidates' scores on practical objectives relate to each other and to those on theory papers. Differences were found in the interrelationships among scores of the two methods. (ZWH)

Investigated the nature, expectations, and experiences of "mature" (over 25-years old) entrants to teaching shortage subjects (n=676). Among the reported findings is that most of these students felt the emphasis on teacher education should remain on the notion of practice. (PR)

Presents results of a survey to science education tutors in university departments of education in the United Kingdom (43 responses). Among the conclusions was the most frequent strategy for raising issues of race, and science teaching appears through analysis of texts for bias or stereotyping and through discussion of the nature of science. (PR)