Journal of Instructional Psychology articles from December 1999

Journal of Instructional Psychology archives from December 1999

Increasing the Number of High-Quality African American Teachers in Urban Schools.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... The problem of recruiting, preparing, and retaining African American teachers in urban schools can be resolved. The primary place to seek minority candidates is in the expanding pool of mature adults with college degrees who already reside in...

Measuring Principals' Openness to Change on Three Dimensions: Affective, Cognitive and Behavioral.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... The principal's role in building-level school reform is crucial for successful reorganization. The context for this study was 307 schools funded by Ohio's legislature to implement their self-designed restructuring plans. The Inventory of...

A Comparison of Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Graduate Students in Educational Administration.
December 1, 1999... To evaluate teaching activities designed to increase educational administration graduate students' ability to reflect on their learning, make connections between that learning and their schools, and to translate that learning to job...

Perceived Instrumentality and Academics: The Link to Task Valuing.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... We examined the theoretical claim that personally valued future goals serve to increase the incentive value of proximal tasks when those proximal tasks are perceived as instrumental to attainment of the future goals. The relationships between...

Listening: A Vital Skill.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Listening is a key to conveying clear meaning. Listening is a skill which we all need to better develop. This article suggests eight clusters of ways quality listening manifests itself. Ways to measure good listening skills and that speakers...

Survey of Psychodramatists' Opinions: Issues Facing the Profession for the New Millennium.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... As the new millennium approaches, it was felt that a thoughtful questioning of the psychodrama profession could be a valuable process in evaluating potential areas of change. A survey was mailed to 200 randomly selected individuals from the...

Stressors and Coping Strategies of ESL Teachers.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... The first objective of this primarily interview-based, qualitative study was to provide an account of the stressors that ESL teachers experience in the workplace. The second objective was to examine the kinds of strategies that ESL teachers use...

The Pupil in the Rural School.
December 1, 1999... Pupils in rural schools need a developmental curriculum to meet personal, interest, and purpose motivations. Quality objectives, learning opportunitites, and appraisals procedures need to be in the offing. Pupils in rural schools need to...

Oral-Questioning Skills of Novice Teachers: ... Any Questions?(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... This report, part of a larger study, investigated the development of the oral-questioning skills among 9 cohorts of teacher-interns (n=95) during their 16-week extended-practicum program. Findings indicated that although the interns did develop...

Video Imagery and Children's Acquisition of Televised Geographic Information: Affecting More Than Visual Content.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... This study examined whether televised imagery can improve children's acquisition of visual-spatial geographic information. It also investigated whether salient imagery hinders or facilitates processing of auditory information that is unrelated...