Journal of Instructional Psychology articles from June 2001

Journal of Instructional Psychology archives from June 2001

The School Principal: State Standards Versus Creativity.
June 1, 2001... The principal of the school has a plethora of challenges in the offing. He/she must abide by state laws when implementing state standards of instruction. These are handed down from the state and not selected on the local school level. State...

Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Internal Consistency of the Student-life Stress Inventory.
June 1, 2001... The validity and reliability of the Student-life Stress Inventory, SSI, was studied by analyzing the responses made to it by 381 students who were enrolled in classes at a state university. The confirmatory factor analyses and the analysis of...

Effect of Computer-Mediated Communications on Teachers' Attitudes Toward Using Web Resources in the Classroom.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... The availability of Internet connections in K-12 classrooms is increasing, yet the use of such resources continues to be low. One explanation may be teachers' attitudes toward the use of web resources due to lack of opportunities for teacher to...

The Ethics of Student Classroom Silence.
June 1, 2001... This article claims that students who refuse to actively participate in their own learning are acting unethically. Standards borrowed from Richard L. Johannesen's Ethics in Human Communication 4th ed. are employed as support for this claim....

A Lesson on Racial Differences.
June 1, 2001... We live in an ever changing world filled with human diversity. Today's children must be taught how to not only live in such a diverse global community, but to understand the benefits that this diversity offers them. This article is designed to...

Replaceable Professors: An Observation.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... This article is an extension of a comment made by one of the authors relative to the future of college and university professors and their collective bargaining units. In it, one of the authors suggested that professors may be easily...

The Student Teacher Literacy Project.
June 1, 2001... The Student Teacher Literacy Project provided training for university student teachers completing their clinical experiences in inclusionary classrooms, Grades 1 through 5. Twenty-one student teachers received eight, two-hour training sessions...

The Use of Random Extra Credit Quizzes to Increase Student Attendance.
June 1, 2001... The effect of random extra credit quizzes on student attendance in an undergraduate course on the psychology of learning was examined. A B-A-B reversal design was used to measure quiz effects. The results indicated that student attendance...