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Changes In Student Teacher Dogmatism And Attitudes, George Geer Austin-Martin

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to determine what changes in student teacher dogmatism and attitudes occurred during the student teaching experience as a function of the supervising teacher's dogmatism and attitudes as measured by the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale and the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory.

The population for this study consisted of all students enrolled in education courses during the spring semester of 1974 who had not had field work in the public schools and all Secondary Education students enrolled in student teaching and their supervising teachers. From this population the following sample was selected:

1. A group of 22 …

Teacher Preparation For Social Studies On The Secondary Level As Recommended By Selected Colleges Of Education And As Preferred By Selected School Districts, Clare Ignatia Sharp

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The curriculum changes in the social studies from the expostulatory method with history and economics content, to the inductive method with an interdisciplinary approach which included all the social studies, made it difficult for those prepared in the traditional teacher education patterns to adapt to the "new social studies." It was the purpose of this study to survey the programs recommended by selected colleges of education, and to survey the programs preferred by the school districts. This study also attempted to survey any changes that had taken place in teacher preparation on the one hand, and any changes in teaching …

A Comparison Of The Written And Oral English Syntax Of Mexican American Bilingual And Anglo American Monolingual Fourth And Ninth Grade Students (Las Vegas, New Mexico), Raymond J. Rodrigues

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The major problem investigated by this study was whether or not Mexican American bilingual fourth and ninth grade students represent the same language population in their English syntactic usage as do Anglo American fourth and ninth grade students in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The first hypothesis specified that the distributions of the following variables of the bilingual and monolingual groups were not significantly different in the oral and written modes: average number of words per clause; average number of clauses per T-unit; average number of words per T-unit; total "sentence-embedding" transformations and "sentence-embedding" transformations in headed nominal, non-headed nominal, adverbial, …

Identification Of Infants At Risk For Potential Developmental Problems Secondary To Stress In Their Mothers., Susanne Bradley Brown

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

One of the first tasks of mothering is the feeding of the child. It is recognized that certain mothers have difficulty carrying out this function. If the mother has extreme difficulty with this task, her child is at risk for neurologic and the subsequent educational problems.

This study looked at the amount of stress in the mother in the year preceding delivery to the rate of weight gain in her child. The hypothe­sis that mothers with increased stress would have the greatest difficulty feeding their infants could not be accepted. There was, however, an in­dication that once the total stress …