Education articles from June 1996

Education archives from June 1996

Preservice teachers' perceived need for training in health education.
June 22, 1996... School health education is implemented to promote healthy behaviors in young people. Teachers carry out a variety of responsibilities in this comprehensive effort. Classroom teachers, especially at the elementary level, commonly conduct health...

A comprehensive school health program to improve health and education.
June 22, 1996... Promoting the health and well being of children and adolescents is a generally accepted value of our society. In part, this value stems from their vulnerability. They lack the resources, knowledge, and skills to function independently. Support...

Health education for youth of the 21st century.
June 22, 1996... In the early 1980s my daughter came to me with a career decision that was quite surprising. She declared that she wished to become a health educator. The news was surprising in that teaching had always been outside her realm of interest, possibly...

What does it mean to teach abstinence?
June 22, 1996... Anyone who addresses sexuality education with teenagers, either as a regular classroom teacher or as a guest health educator is likely to be faced, sooner or later, with the question, "Are you teaching abstinence?" This question can be a real...

Teacher-centered and discipline-based health education reform in California.
June 22, 1996... The primary causes of death, disease and social problems among young people in the United States today are largely the result of learned behaviors such as failure to use safety belts, internalized and externalized violence, tobacco, alcohol and...

Rationale for schoolsite health promotion.
June 22, 1996... Introduction Our nation's public school system employs over 13,000 superintendents, 2.5 million instructors, and 1.5 million nonprofessional staff as role models for the country's 48 million children and youth (Ballard, Kingery, and Pruitt,...

Disasters and crises: challenges to mental health counseling in the twenty-first century.
June 22, 1996... One of the latest and, perhaps, the most important roles counseling is facing today, and increasingly will face in the twenty-first century, is that of providing services in the aftermath of various crises and disasters. Providing mental health...

Standards-based assessment in school health education.
June 22, 1996... Introduction It is an exciting time to be involved in education. Our nation's educational system is in the midst of immense curricular reform. The development and implementation of national standards and performance-based assessments aligned...

Mathematics and football: a winning combination in the middle school.
June 22, 1996... The game of football, like many sports, provides an excellent context for posing problems, developing concepts, and practicing skills in middle school mathematics. The geometric properties of a football field, the scoring system used in football,...

Fostering students' disposition towards mathematics: a case from a Canadian University.
June 22, 1996... One of several factors that affect students' learning of mathematics is their disposition towards mathematics. As used here, mathematical disposition means "a tendency to think and act in positive ways" (National Council of Teachers of...

The relationship between anxiety and attitudinal variables of physicians: implications for health care.
June 22, 1996... Over the past years researchers have investigated the possibility of relationships among stress-anxiety responses and burnout among students and teachers (Blase, 1982); human service professions (Barber, 1983); occupations; depression in elderly...

Educational goals for individuals with a severe disability: parental and professional preferences.
June 22, 1996... The involvement of parents in the education of their child with a severe disability is based upon legal mandates, philosophical principles, and research data. As Hilton and Henderson (1993) noted, "There is little debate about the importance and...

Rousseau revisited: compassion as an essential element in democratic education.
June 22, 1996... A cursory examination of news media reports most certainly leads one to a general national perception that America's schools are in trouble. Among a myriad of specific concerns is that school has become a more violent, drug-ridden, lonely place...

An examination of cognitive dissonance and computer attitudes.
June 22, 1996... Leon Festinger originally introduced the concept of "cognitive dissonance" in 1957. Basically, this term refers to when individuals take a position on some issue, be it through what they say or what they do. Either way, a personal commitment is...

Challenges to democracy: reasons for counselor vigilance.
June 22, 1996... Introduction The main assumption of this statement is that democracy is being forced to adapt to the post-modern world culture and those adaptations have significant implications for counseling. Therefore, counselors can benefit from staying...

Men's college classroom environments.
June 22, 1996... At the very time when many single sex institutions were becoming coeducational, in the largest study of American colleges undertaken until that time, Astin (1977) found advantages for both men and women at single sex colleges on such varied...

Privatization of higher education services: propositional pros and cons.
June 22, 1996... The decline in and the lack of state and federal monies for public higher education institutions, combined with the limited amount of finances available from private sources such as foundations and individuals, is forcing many universities and...

School accountability beyond test scores - a student-centered approach: focus on student-not subject matter.
June 22, 1996... Global Functioning Every individual begins life as a helpless, impotent, dependent parasite. Then with maturity an individual develops adequate powers to be a contributing member of society. So far as archeological researchers can determine,...

Gender and mathematics achievement parity: evidence from post-secondary education.
June 22, 1996... Introduction Over the last two decades, the gender differences in mathematics performance have been studied intensively, and the findings of these studies have produced controversy regarding educational strategies for teaching mathematics....

Have we tried everything possible in education?
June 22, 1996... My purpose in writing this manuscript is in response to educators who state that our public schools have not changed since the early 1900's. Sometimes statements are exaggerated to make a point. I do believe, however, that the news media may...

Examining the distorted perceptions of some prison inmates in relation to their global functioning.
June 22, 1996... The study was designed for purpose of making meaningful comparisons between the perceived world of 46 men presently in prison in relation to another corresponding group not in prison. The comparisons were based on scores for The Global...

Technology-assisted instruction and instructor cyberphobia: recognizing the ways to effect change.
June 22, 1996... Ansoff & McDonnell (1990) noted that resistance to change occurs when there is a departure from the historic behavior, culture and power structure. Resistance will manifest as behavioral resistance and systemic resistance. Behavioral resistance...

A synopsis for outcome-based versus income-focused enrollment management.
June 22, 1996... An overview In a recent article published by the New York Daily News entitled Students Enroll with the Punches: Many Take Second Job to Stay In, Avenoso (1995) profiles several students attempting to maintain their lifelong dreams of a college...

The effect on student teachers of the teaching behaviors of cooperating teachers.
June 22, 1996... Introduction Cooperating teachers play a significant role in the professional development and preparation of student teachers. When compared to class time, the student teacher spends more time with the cooperating teacher than any other...

The evolution of educational computer software.
June 22, 1996... The Historical context The third great revolution - computers and high technology (the first being agriculture and the second the industrial revolution) - has already fundamentally altered life for the better, at least for people in the...

An attitudinal comparison toward computers between underclassmen and graduating seniors.
June 22, 1996... Introduction Due to the increased use of personal computers in class work at university campuses, many students are faced with mastering a tool that may appear threatening to them. Some surveys show that many individuals are optimistic about...

Improving information accessibility through computer-assisted adjacency modeling.
June 22, 1996... Overview One of the most important determinants of an organization's efficiency is the way it uses available space. Within educational organizations, those arrangements may involve the placement of buildings on a campus, rooms in a building,...