Journal of Instructional Psychology articles from June 1999

Journal of Instructional Psychology archives from June 1999

A Survey of Opinions of North Carolina School Administrators Regarding Factors Considered Most Important in Hiring Teachers for their First Teaching Position.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 1999... This study was constructed to survey administrators across the state of North Carolina to determine the most important factors in hiring teachers for their first teaching positions. It also suggests to elementary and secondary education majors...

End-User Training: A Meta Model.
June 1, 1999... One of the major issues related to EUC is training individuals in colleges and in businesses to adopt to the new technology. This study is motivated by the issues created by end-user computing (EUC) and its growing importance within...

Organizing for Instruction in Mathematics.
June 1, 1999... A good mathematics instructor is a proficient organizer of pupils for instruction in mathematics (Ediger, 1997, pp 18-38). Here, the teacher has numerous incidental ways for pupils to learn mathematics. Bulletin board displays which illustrate...

Fostering Critical Thinking in Personality Psychology: The Trait Paper Assignment.
June 1, 1999... A personality trait-based term paper assignment that is appropriate for use in personality psychology courses and that is designed to foster critical thinking skills is introduced. The extent to which the trait questions correspond to generic...

The Information and Picture Completion Dyad of the WISC-III as a Screening Test for Gifted Referrals.
June 1, 1999... The study investigated the relationship between Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition Full Scale IQ scores and subtest dyads from the scale. The Information and Picture Completion dyad correlated with the Full Scale score and...

Building Character and Culture.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Building Character and Culture Pat Duffy Hutcheon stresses the importance of culture in human development, along with our collective responsibility for the direction in which that culture evolves. From the perspective of an...

Perceptions of Education Majors and Experienced Teachers Regarding Factors that Contribute to Successful Classroom Management.
June 1, 1999... Education majors and experienced teachers identified factors that they believed contributed to a successfully managed classroom and reported a percentage for the perceived influence of each factor. The participants also identified components...

The Caring Ethic in Early Childhood Teacher Education.
June 1, 1999... The "caring ethic" is central to the teaching-learning process. Early childhood teacher educators can promote a teacher as leader paradigm that supports the development of caring skills and perspectives in future teachers. Future teachers can...

Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy Edited by Stephen Appel Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series, ISSN 1064-8615 "Appel's volume joins the move toward understanding education through embodiment, experience, and intimate relationality,...

Impulsive Response Style Affects Computer-Administered Multiple-Choice Test Performance.
June 1, 1999... The current study was designed to test whether an impulsive response style affects performance on computer-administered multiple-choice tests and whether the consequences of such a response style are amenable to modification. The Matching...

Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry with High School Students.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry with High School Students Judith Rowe Michaels Don't be afraid to write and read poetry with your students is the message that Judith Michaels delivers in this new book from the National...

Beginning to Read and the Spin Doctors of Science: The Political Campaign to Change America's Mind about How Children Learn to Read.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Beginning to Read and the Spin Doctors of Science: The Political Campaign to Change America's Mind about How Children Learn to Read In a dramatic narrative account, Denny Taylor exposes the motivation behind the myth that public schools are...

Some Simple and Yet Overlooked Common Sense Tips For A More Effective Classroom Environment.
June 1, 1999... This article is designed to share the experiences, insights, and strategies utilized by experienced teachers in making their classrooms more effective learning environments. These teachers believe that through the use of these teaching...

Levels of Cognition in Teaching Adult Vocational Education Programs in Central Ohio.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 1999... The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the cognitive levels of adult vocational education programs in Central Ohio. Data were collected by use of an interview schedule from vocational institutions that were cluster sampled....