Education articles from December 1993

Education archives from December 1993

Re-conceptualizing the self-efficacy paradigm: analysis of an eight-year study.
December 22, 1993... Traditional Views of Efficacy In organizational climates where achievement is encouraged, a sense of efficacy exists which suggests that individuals assume personal responsibility for success; individuals in this type of an environment believe...

Everywhere You Turn. (poem)
December 22, 1993... Everywhere you turn Hands are raised frantically in the air Slicing through the chatter Over and over again Everywhere you turn Voices are buzzing Some with the excitement of the work Others with the playfulness of youth It's always ringing in...

Mainstreaming students with disabilities using self-efficacy.
December 22, 1993... PL 92-142 the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (1975), later amended (1990) as PL 101-476, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, (IDEA), mandates that students with disabilities must be educated in the least restrictive...

Education of students with disabilities: a joint research study between the United States and Japan.
December 22, 1993... Program Overview The University of Tennessee at Martin-School of Education (UTM) and Hirosaki University-School of education in Japan (HU) was awarded a three year joint research grant in 1993 by the Ministry of Education of Japan. The...

An introduction to nearly optimal programming an extension of sensitivity analysis in linear programming.
December 22, 1993... Introduction Linear programming (LP) is one the most significant mathematical tools used in solving problems of practical importance. For example, in a survey of Fortune 500 companies, it was reported that 85% of the firms responding used LP...

Beyond the formulas - mathematics education for prospective elementary school teachers.
December 22, 1993... Mathematicians have started to recognize their responsibility in the mathematical education of pre-service elementary teachers. In the last decade, math courses have been developed specifically for elementary education majors. Unfortunately,...

Creativity and birth order/sex differences in children.
December 22, 1993... Previous studies have suggested that while first borns may be higher in creativity among males, the finding is reversed for females, with later borns being the highest in creativity (Eisenman, 1967a, 1967b, 1968, 1970, 1987, 1991b; Eisenman &...

Cooperative communication and planning interaction: the role of the library media program in curriculum development.
December 22, 1993... In today's Information Age it is becoming increasingly difficult for teachers and students to process the vast amount of information available. It is time for the teacher/librarian to move from the term "library skills" to "information skills"...

Teachers and administrators: who's who?
December 22, 1993... As schools move toward a shared decision-making model, it is increasingly more difficult to separate the roles of administrator and teacher. Schools embracing shared decision-making no longer accept the traditional role of teacher as one who...

Enhancing accreditation success through simulation.
December 22, 1993... AS do all universities and colleges, The University of Southern Mississippi gave serious attention to preparing for its National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) visit. It engaged in the usual self assessment and writing...

When does a learner "understand"? Cognitive and psychological components in the process of understanding.
December 22, 1993... Observe classroom instruction and one is likely to hear the teacher affirm to students, "You need to know this material by Friday," or inquire, "Do you understand what we are doing?" Usually students reply to these unspecified and impersonal...

Time to see, tell and do about bigotry and racism.
December 22, 1993... Personal Three horny men looking to tag-team young afro-american virgin...X5950, X7041, X5912 Three campus editors placed this ad in the personal section of their small town New England college newspaper. The reaction they got was mixed. A...

Discovering the future of education.
December 22, 1993... Without understanding the dynamics of genuine change, restructuring schools is likely to be analogous, as some anonymous wit has said, "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." Old problems and practices are unlikely to disappear. For...

Factor analysis and ordinal data.
December 22, 1993... Researchers in the behavioral sciences have for some time used the related procedures of principal components and factor analysis in an attempt to validate tests or other measurement systems. Many articles have been written recommending when to...

Teacher education in India: an auxiliary perspective.
December 22, 1993... The article "Innovations in teacher education - the Indian context" by Joshi and Thomas (1991, p. 11-15) is a brief but insightful documentary on innovative ideas and practices in teacher education in India. The authors' review highlights on...

MIS program in smaller colleges: politics and other problems. (Management Information System)
December 22, 1993... I. Introduction A phenomenon among colleges and universities in the last ten years has been the offering of a Computer Information Systems (CIS) program. The interdisciplinary nature of this type of program is reflected by the fact that...

Protecting a valuable resource: teachers at risk.
December 22, 1993... Teachers and their career stability have been under close public scrutiny for several years. Evidence suggests that teacher dissatisfaction has continued to increase since the 1970's (Frase & Sorenson, 1992; Greabel & Olsen, 1986). Specific...

Influence of personal beliefs and attitudes on certification of pre-service teachers.
December 22, 1993... Reports on schools and colleges of teacher education have consistently identified a confusion of goals, conflicting objectives, and lack of cohesion (Clifford and Guthrie, 1988; Cruickshank, 1990; Dill 1990; Holmes Group, 1989; White, 1992). Some...

Higher education changes & innovations for the 21st. century.
December 22, 1993... Anticipated changes in the population as we approach the 21st. century have many implication for postsecondary educational offerings. To improve our education system, the broad academic goals such educational programs should address include:...

Arnold Schwarzenegger: the extremist.
December 22, 1993... I constructed a case study I will present in a bit to illustrate to students - I am thinking of teenagers - some ideas I have about their becoming more successful academically and otherwise. In putting this together, I drew on some reading I have...

Assessment in mathematics: three alternative strategies.
December 22, 1993... In 1989 the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics issued an important document entitled Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics |NCTM~ 1989). This document is significant...

Improved curve fitting with least absolute deviation.
December 22, 1993... Overview In an earlier article in the National Forum of Applied Education Research Journal, Taylor (1989) demonstrated that Least Absolute Deviation (LAD) provided a more representative line of best fit, as compared with Least Squares...

Teaching/learning relationship.
December 22, 1993... Like this illustration of a duck, there is a representational or Gestalt effect in education. For many years the focus in teaching and learning has targeted observable, linear, cognitive outcomes. As with this duck drawing, these are the...