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Monitor Newsletter January 17, 1994, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

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The Bg News January 12, 1994, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. January 12, 1994. Volume 76-Issue 77.

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Monitor Newsletter January 10, 1994, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

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Phytochrome As A Light Switch For Gene Expression In Plants, Pill-Soon Song

The Spectrum

No abstract provided.

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The Key 1994, Bowling Green State University

BGSU Key Yearbooks

Bowling Green State University 1994 Key Yearbook

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Parenting Style And Parental Involvement: Relations With Adolescent Achievement, Sharon E. Paulson

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

The purposes of this study were to explore the influence of parenting style (demandingness and responsiveness) and parental involvement (commitment to achievement) on school achievement in adolescents, and to compare the relative importance of the different dimensions of parenting for the achievement outcome. Subjects were 80 ninth-grade boys and girls from a suburban community in the southeast. Questionnaire measures of adolescents' perceptions of maternal and paternal demandingness, responsiveness, and commitment to achievement were designed for this program of research. Boys' reports of both maternal and paternal parenting significantly predicted their achievement outcome, with parental values towards achievement significantly predicting achievement …

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Making The Grade: Perspectives On A Teacher's Assessment Practices, Carol Briscoe

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

This study analyzes one teacher's attempts at innovative assessment practices, and the struggle to implement a meaningful science curriculum in the face of traditional assessment expectations. The interpretations presented focus on three dilemmas influencing teaching practice: maintaining individual student accountability when cooperative group learning is prescribed by the curriculum, evaluating lower-ability students on fixed standards while maintaining a low failure rate, and providing summative grades with limited data on student knowledge. The study highlights the need to provide support for teachers attempting innovative change in teaching practive, and especially, for restructuring current beliefs about the purposes of assessment and grading.

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