Journal of Instructional Psychology articles from December 2000

Journal of Instructional Psychology archives from December 2000

Errata.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... In the article Approaching a Taxonomy 21 by William D. Daily, the following paragraph was inadvertently omitted and should have followed item 21 on page 154: Knowledge then fortifies, not only the soul, but in this case the fibre of health...

The Quality of Life Argument in Public Funding of Special-Needs Students in North Carolina.
December 1, 2000... This paper exploits the possibility of explaining the geographical distribution of special education students in North Carolina based on some quality of life traits. The results show that enrollment of special education students is highly...

Preservice Teachers' Explanations of Their Teaching Behavior.
December 1, 2000... The purpose of this study was to utilize a post-observation interview with 37 elementary and middle grades student teachers relating to items on the North Carolina Teacher Performance Appraisal Instrument(NCTAPI). The post-observation interview...

Technology-Enhanced Counselor Training: Essential Technical Competencies.
December 1, 2000... Counselor educators must consider the possibilities associated with technology-enhanced counselor training and research. The focus of this article was to identify the technology competencies that should be acquired by graduate students who...

Attributes of Animation for Learning Scientific Knowledge.
December 1, 2000... The main purpose of this study was to explore different instructional attributes provided by animation in facilitating descriptive and procedural learning. In the study, subjects were eighth-grade and ninth-grade students. Spatial ability was...

A Field Experiment: Instructor-Based Training vs. Computer-Based Training.
December 1, 2000... This study is motivated by the issues created by end-user computing (EUC) and its growing importance within organizations. One of the major issues related to EUC is training individuals to adopt to the new technology. As a result, both...

Purposes in Learner Assessment.
December 1, 2000... There are a plethora of ways that pupils may to assessed to notice achievement. Certainly, assessment is a major topic for discussion in the educational arena. There seemingly is much testing to notice pupil progress. With diverse means of...

The Effect of Network and Public Television Programs on Four and Five Year Olds Ability to Attend to Educational Tasks.
December 1, 2000... This study examined the effect of network and public television programs on children's 1) ability to attend to a task, 2) children's time on task, and 3) engagement in rough and tumble play. 62 children were randomly assigned to one of three...

Promising Partnership Preparation for the New Millennium.
December 1, 2000... There has always been a need for closer relationships between higher education institutions and public schools. Few educational partnerships are as close as that of "peas in a pod," but that is the analogy used to describe a collaborative...

At-Risk Adolescents Perceptions of Learning Temperaments: Implications for Educational Intervention.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... The current study examined learning temperaments and needs differences between at-risk students receiving psychosocial and academic interventions with an average performing comparison group. In all, 293 males and 408 females, consisting of 472...

Teachers in Post-Proposition-227 Southern California: Implications for Teacher Education.
December 1, 2000... This work reports on the implications of Proposition 227, a language policy replacing bilingual education with one year of English immersion in Southern California, on bilingual teacher candidates in a California State University Certification...

Feedback, Conversation and Power in the Field Experience of Preservice Teachers.
December 1, 2000... This article utilized information collected through a questionnaire distributed to preservice teachers in a Faculty of Education in Canada and in Scotland. The purpose of the questionnaire was to gather data about the field experience of...

Precocious Precognition: Targeting Tomorrow's University Researchers in Today's Middle Schools.
December 1, 2000... As Carnegie-classified research "intensive" and research "extensive" institutions plan to prepare for long-term status sustainability, targeting the intellectual capital in middle schools should be considered as a national educational...