Journal of Instructional Psychology articles from June 2000

Journal of Instructional Psychology archives from June 2000

The International Student Population: Past and Present Demographic Trends.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2000... The number of international students studying within the American system of higher education continues to increase. Many student affairs professionals and faculty members are in leadership positions of determining the direction of resource...

A Synthesis of Research on the Causes, Effects, and Reduction Strategies of Teacher Stress.
June 1, 2000... Occupational stress has been a topic of significant research for the last two decades, reflecting the detrimental effects of employees. In particular, teacher stress is borne out of the demands on the individual teacher. Strong evidence...

An Experimental Assessment of a Newly Revised Democratic Maturity Test for High School Usage.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2000... This is an experimental assessment of the present status of The Democratic Maturity Test (DEMO) for use with high school students. It is clear that the mean for part score entitled "Self-esteem" is too high, and must be revised immediately. All...

The One-to-One Survey: Students with Disabilities Versus Students without Disabilities Satisfaction with Professors During One-on-One Contacts.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2000... The characteristics of positive and negative one-to-one student-faculty interactions were examined in a sample of college students with disabilities and without. Analyses indicated that those with disabilities responded similarly to those...

Personal and Environmental Factors that Influence Early Childhood Teachers' Practices.
June 1, 2000... This study focused on the relationship between teachers' beliefs and practices. Specifically, it examined whether teacher-directed (behaviorist) and student-directed (constructivist) beliefs supported or inhibited teachers' use of...

Faculty Ironies on Grade Inflation.
June 1, 2000... This article presents our analysis of faculty open-ended written comments (n=156) on the topic of grade inflation. Our review of faculty comments reveals stark disagreement among the faculty on grade inflation. Further qualitative analyses...

Student Failure Must Always be Associated with Teacher Failure.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Teachers in our public schools are professional licensed individuals typically certified by state agencies to be qualified to teach students in a professional manner. When students fail in relation to school learning programs, at the same time,...

Philosophy Perspectives in Teaching Social Studies.
June 1, 2000... Teachers need to have much knowledge and skill when implementing diverse philosophies of teaching and learning. Philosophy provides guidance and direction to the teacher when choosing objectives, learning opportunities, and evaluation...

Children's Attitudes Toward Reading and Their Literacy Development.
June 1, 2000... Children's attitudes toward reading are getting little attention in developing children's literacy ability. This article analyzes the factors that influence children's positive attitudes toward reading: children's personal experiences in...

How do Presentation Modality and Strategy Use Influence Memory for Paired Concepts?
June 1, 2000... This experiment attempted to determine how modality (i.e., visual, auditory, textual, visual-textual, visual-auditory, and auditory-textual) influenced learners recall ability on a paired-associate learning task. The experimental procedure...

California Psychology Licensing Exam Rates of Graduates of Accredited and Unaccredited Programs.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Graduates of regionally accredited programs had a significantly higher pass rate (64.6%) on the written exam (Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology) than that of graduates of unaccredited programs (39.0%). The respective pass...

Describing the Real World.
June 1, 2000... An educator comments on the way his students view "the real world." I asked my students to describe the "real world." Their real world is different than the real world of the successful. It is a world that has felt the dagger of...