This paper reports on the responses of a cohort of preservice primary teachers to a statement about the extent to which helping children achieve relational understanding is a realistic expectation. Although the preservice teachers' course had included teaching about understanding a number of misconceptions about the meanings of relational and instrumental understanding were evident in the responses of a sizeable minority, along with evidence that many held beliefs that were likely to result in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Misconceptions, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Beswick, Kim
The paper presents an annotated bibliography of children's books (1975-1984) designed to promote understanding of handicapped children. Books were gathered from searches of the literature as well as Books In Print. Selection criteria are described. Entries are presented alphabetically by author, within disability groups (visually handicapped, hearing impaired, speech impaired, orthopedically impaired, specific learning disability, mentally retarded, and multiply handicapped). A final category,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Childrens Literature, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Attitudes
Money has significant impact on people's motivation and behavior. This study examined attitudes toward money of first-year undergraduate university students (N=68) in National Taiwan University. The Money Ethic Scale (MES) was used to identify six factors concerning the meaning of money: good, evil, achievement, respect, budget, and freedom. A personality questionnaire measured the Protestant Work Ethic (PWE), the leisure ethic, and the internal-external locus of control. The results indicated...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
The book offers firsthand accounts of the experiences and perceptions of disabled persons, as well as the views of parents of disabled children. Entries include the following titles: "Reflections of Disabled Children" (J. Umbreit and D. Baker); "The Handicap That Had No Name" (D. Brown); "Orthopedically Disabled: Determination on Wheels" (D. Lattin); "I'm a Person, Not a Wheelchair! Problems of Disabled Adolescents" (M. Winter and D. DeSimone);...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitudes, Disabilities, Parent Attitudes, Personal Narratives, Student Attitudes
In this article, we describe the effects on student achievement and attitudes of a Canadian school-wide, arts education approach, "Learning Through the Arts" "(LTTA)". Our sample included over 6000 students and their parents, teachers, and principals. We gathered data, both at the outset and after three years of involvement in "LTTA" on student achievement, student attitudes towards arts and schooling, and out-of-school activities. We found no baseline differences...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Smithrim, Katharine|Upitis, Rena
This study reports findings related to student attrition in 13 colleges. Several tests, such as The Omnibus Personality Inventory, were used to determine the personality characteristics of students who leave college prior to graduation. Included in the findings are: (1) peers and parents rank high in the help asked for and received, with the college personnel coming in a poor third; (2) college personnel appear to be contacted after decisions to withdraw have been solidified; (3) 20% of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dropout Characteristics, Student Attitudes, Two Year Colleges, Hannah, William
An exploratory study examined student perspectives and beliefs about involvement in the American Advertising Federation's (AAF) National Student Advertising Competition. Subjects, 34 students from 7 of the 15 winning regional teams in the 1991 AAF competition, completed a single-page, 2-part questionnaire. Multiple correlations were run on students' responses. Results indicated that: (1) the composite profile of competitors suggested that the student was a senior lacking in experience in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advertising, Competition, Higher Education, Profiles, Questionnaires, Student...
To assess student characteristics and learn about the perceptions of college life of entering students and other representative groups of students and faculty, the Four College Study of Institutional Development within the State University of New York was conducted using the College and University Environmental Scale (CUES) and College Student Questionnaire (CSQ) as part of the evaluation instruments. CUES consists of 150 statements about college life and has 5 scales or dimensions:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Environment, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Bagley, Clarence H.
Innovations in the English curriculum are more talked about than implemented. Curriculum changes, some with profound implications, are occurring; however, such changes affect only a few schools. Student dissatisfaction with current course offerings is increasing. (CK)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum, Student Attitudes, Farrell, Edmund J.
Assessed were the attitudes toward children of 246 college freshmen. A shortened version of the Situational Attitude Scale-Adults/Children (SAS-A/C) was used to obtain indications of subjects' attitudes toward five hypothetical situations representing levels of social distance. The situations were: (1) having a person as a houseguest for a week; (2) renting a room to someone; (3) having a person live in the adjacent apartment; (4) having dinner in a nice restaurant with another person sitting...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bias, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Young Children
This document reports the findings of the Inventory of Opinion and Expectation as administered to 1178 incoming freshmen at the State University of New York at Buffalo during the fall of 1971. It was found that the typical freshman at SUNY/B is a public high school graduate who found high school courses boring, repetitious and uninteresting, yet who anticipates a challenge in colleges. Most of the high school homework was written exercises and assigned readings, and the freshman expects...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Freshmen, Expectation, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Student...
Self-esteem is widely perceived to be important. This study examined the role of self-esteem as a moderator of social behavior in a sample selected to represent a broad range on the self-esteem dimension. Student subjects representing high, medium, and low levels of self-esteem were selected from a large sample (N=1,051) such that those characterized as low in self-esteem expressed negative self-attitudes. All subjects selected completed seven paper-and-pencil tasks measuring well-known and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Predictor Variables, Self Esteem, Social Behavior, Student Attitudes, Students
A SUMMARY WAS PREPARED OF A TWO-PART STUDY OF THE AESTHETIC ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS TOWARDS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC. PART 1 SURVEYED THE AUDIENCES AT SIX CONCERTS TO FIND A PATTERN OF ATTITUDES BY (1) STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MUSIC, (2) AGE AND EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF THE AUDITORS, (3) MUSICAL BACKGROUND, AND (4) SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND. PART 2 DREW UPON A SAMPLE OF 1,300 STUDENTS FROM GRADES 4 THROUGH 12. AN EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN WAS ESTABLISHED IN THIS PHASE WHICH PERMITTED ANALYSIS OF THE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Music, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, HORNYAK, R. ROBERT
This report presents the results of the 10th annual National Student Satisfaction Study conducted to determine the level of importance that students place on areas of their student experience and how satisfied students are that institutions are meeting their expectations. The study uses the Student Satisfaction Inventory (SSI) to identify student concerns that are truly affecting student success. The 2003 report contains data from 796 colleges and universities that used the SSI between fall...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Educational Experience, Satisfaction, Student Attitudes, Student...
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This paper, prepared for a faculty seminar in conjunction with an NDEA International Affairs Institute, examines data collected in numerous studies on the political attitudes of children and adolescents. Four widely used models derived to deal with political socialization (the accumulation model, the identification model, the role transfer model, and the cognitive development model) and one less frequently used model (the reduction expansion model) are offered in the opening pages. The major...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitude Change, Political Socialization, Student Attitudes, Torney, Judith V.
While the issue of rape evokes strong responses, confusion seems to occur not when a blitz or stranger rape occurs, but when an acquaintance or date rape occurs. This study assessed acquaintance rape scripts given a preset scenario. Subjects included female college students (N=32) and male college students (N=19). Subjects were given a scenario that included a conversation between two roommates with instructions to write down the events that had led up to the conversation. After completing this...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Higher Education, Rape, Sex Differences, Student Attitudes
This second report in a series is designed to inform the college of certain opinions held by former students. A 38-item questionnaire was sent to 2288 non-graduate alumni; only 376 (16%) replied. In spite of the small return, a few pertinent observations can be made on the results of the analysis. From the meager response, it appears that most dropouts felt no residual affinity for the college. Most of those who did reply, however, felt that the college, especially the General Education...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dropouts, Institutional Research, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Surveys, Two...
Two methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, were used in this study designed to evaluate the Social Learning Curriculum and compare its effects with Instrumental Enrichment. The quantitative portion included examination of pretest-posttest performance of 143 mildly handicapped children on six measures and a social knowledge assessment developed by researchers. A quasi-experimental design was employed for the quantitative section in which data were analyzed with the analysis of covariance....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Thinking, Enrichment, Mild Disabilities, Social Development, Student...
Two Basic Skill Centers were set up in Minneapolis in 1969 to help inner-city students improve their reading skills. This report covers the fourth year's operation of the project. The goals of the program include remediation of subskill weaknesses, achievement of functional reading levels, and raising the rate of reading growth of children in Target Area schools, who were one or more years below grade level in reading. Individualized instruction was provided for 675 students from grades 3-7,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, Tables (Data), Teacher Attitudes, Clark, Sara H.
Attitudes of 50 kindergarten and 50 first grade students with normal hearing toward peers wearing hearing aids were examined. Students viewed eight pictures depicting children in various conditions of hearing aid use (standard body aid, post-auricular aid, in-the-ear aid, and no hearing aid). For each picture, Ss were given nine sets of bipolar adjectives and asked to make a choice for each. Results suggested that the presence or absence of a hearing aid was not perceived uniformly but rather...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Hearing Aids, Hearing Impairments, Kindergarten, Primary Education, Student Attitudes
This document contains: (1) the report of the University of Michigan Committee on Student Evaluation of Courses and its recommendations; (2) a report on student opinion of courses and teaching dated 10-2-53; and (3) a report of the Student Course Evaluation Committee appointed by the Student Government Council and dated 1968. The first report discussed the potential uses of evaluation for the teaching faculty, the department administrator, and the student, reviewed some of the potential...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Course Evaluation, Evaluation, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation
An effort was made to determine freshmen student perceptions of academic advisory programs, pre-registration material, and summer orientation. To ascertain these perceptions a questionnaire was sent to all freshmen on the Orono Campus of the University of Maine. Approximately half of the students found the summer orientation program to be helpful, and the most useful academic information acquired was about courses they needed to take. The most useful experience was getting acquainted with other...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Freshmen, Orientation, Orientation Materials, Student Attitudes, Zink, Mary S.
A sample of 88 seniors completed the 1971 Senior Survey questionnaire (Part II) concerning their experiences at the State University of New York, Buffalo. These students had a generally favorable opinion of the SUNY/B faculty they knew, and they expressed a somewhat more positive view of faculty in their own departments than of others. The academic activities that were the most important contributors to the students' academic education were: class lectures, general preparation for class, and,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Student College Relationship, Surveys, Faulman,...
This document is an analysis of literary quotations and the opinions of high school students on the nature of culture and the goal of man. It is written from the vantage point of a high school teacher who has sought the opinions of his students. The "Youth culture" that exists in American society seems to be motivated by a combination of factors, including a skepticism toward contemporary adult values, a search for the answer to the question of a personal identity, a kind of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Cultural Differences, English Instruction, Student Attitudes, D'Amico,...
The product of two summer institutes to prepare teachers and administrators for school integration, this report contains a resource manual on "Interpersonal Relationships Among Students." For full abstract of institute proceedings, see UD 009 479. For other resource manuals, see UD 009 480, UD 009 481, UD 009 483, and UD 009 484. (KG)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Inservice Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Resource Materials, School...
To determine whether mainstreaming affects the nonhandicapped student's cognitive schema of the handicapped, a story about a physically handicapped boy was read to 28 fourth grade children in a mainstreamed classroom and 29 nonmainstreamed children. The 10 characteristics attributed to the handicapped boy in the story (acquisition items) and 8 novel characteristics (distractor items) were included in the subsequent recognition memory task. The number of errors made in the memory task reflected...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Development, Intermediate Grades, Mainstreaming, Physical Disabilities,...
The use of the Silent Way method of second language instruction in beginning and intermediate Spanish classes at the college level is described. The approach encourages student self-responsibility for learning the target language according to learning strategies selected by the student. Although the method was used during three semesters, the students underwent the greatest metamorphosis in their abilities to independently interact in Spanish during the first semester. Student's initial...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Student Attitudes, Teaching...
In the spring of 1968 Northern Michigan University and 28 other midwestern colleges and universities participated in a study designed to assess students' perceptions of their campus environment. The study was conducted under the auspices of the Central State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) Cooperative Research Program. Six areas were identified as descriptive of the campus environment: (1) academic environment; (2) facilities and services; (3) cultural climate; (4) communications; (5)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Environment, Educational Environment, Higher Education, Student Attitudes,...
This paper will discuss the results of a study in which junior-level college students were asked to select the Dictionary of Occupational Titles worker function numbers (Data, People, Thing), D.O.T. general education development numbers (reasoning development, mathematical development, and language development), and the D.O.T. specific vocational preparation numbers for the profession they hope to occupy after graduation. The student-selected numbers were then compared with the actual numbers...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Occupational Information, Job Skills,...
Research has suggested that high levels of sexual guilt lead to decreased exposure to sexual behaviors, sexual stimuli, or sexual information. A study was conducted to examine the interrelationships among the variables of sexual guilt, sexual experience, sexual misinformation, and sexual satisfaction. College students (N=125), selected through a stratified cluster sampling technique, completed a questionnaire consisting of: (1) Mosher Forced Choice Inventory Sexual Guilt subscale; (2) Brady...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Experience, Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Sexuality, Student...
This paper is based on an analysis of a portion of data collected during a 6-month field study in a chemistry department in a Canadian university. Specifically, the views on the interaction among science, technology, and society (STS) held by undergraduates in this department were examined using a variation of VOSTS CDN-2. In addition, individual interviews with selected students were conducted. Results obtained from the VOSTS CDN-2 and from two areas explored during interviews (the nature of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Science, Comprehension, Higher Education, Science Education, Student...
This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between computer-related stress, somatic complaints, and computerphobia. Subjects were 109 graduate and undergraduate college students who completed a questionnaire which consisted of questions on demographic data; exposure to computer information; the Computer Technology Hassles Scale to measure computer-related stress; somatic complaint items from the Hopkins Symptom Checklist; and Rosen, Sears, and Weil's (1987) measures of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Anxiety, College Students, Computers, Higher Education, Stress Variables, Student...
Upon entering college, some African American students experience difficulty with literacy tasks requiring text analysis, active problem solving, and critical thinking. Many of these difficulties can be traced to the high school as the source. To understand some of the underlying causes for this situation, phenomenological interviews were conducted with eleven first-year African American college students to examine their high school preparation. The students' reflections offer three key findings...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, College Students, African American Students, Literacy, Banks, Joy
In an effort to find either support for or evidence contrary to the popularly accepted concept of student withdrawal into the self and student rejection of outside authority, Dr. Jeffrey K. Hadden administered a 246 question questionnaire to 2,000 students who came from every type of college campus. Five attitudes appeared to reflect the collective views of these students: (1) they were idealistic and socially aware; (2) their idealism often took the form of contempt for the older generation's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitudes, College Students, Faculty, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Surveys,...
To examine characteristics of subjects relative to their attitudes toward censorship, a study surveyed 98 college students selected from students in a public university in the southeastern United States. A 24-item Likert-style censorship scale was used to measure attitudes toward censorship. Strong agreement with affirmative items would suggest that a respondent was pro-censorship; the reverse was true for the negatively directed items. After completing the censorship scale, subjects were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Censorship, Cloze Procedure, Educational Research, Higher Education, Student...
Attitudes and perceptions of elementary students about moderately mentally retarded children were measured in three elementary schools providing classroom programs for the moderately mentally retarded and three elementary schools not providing such programs. Additional variables investigated were size of school system/community (small, medium, and large) and grade level (first, third, and fifth). Following random assignments to experimental or control status, all experimental Ss were provided...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitude Change, Elementary Education, Moderate Mental Retardation, Program...
The report describes revisions made to the Child Raising Opinion Questionnaire for assessing attitudes toward child rearing in the Mountain-Plains student population. Two new scales were developed for the Questionnaire: one measuring resistance to learning about children in particular and resistance to outside influences in the area of child raising generally; the other measuring confidence/adequacy in dealing with children. In addition, new items were included in the section of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Students, Child Rearing, Parent Attitudes, Questionnaires, Rural Population,...
This booklet encourages potential high school dropouts to stay in school. It opens by claiming that the choice to drop out of school is the student's but lists negative potential outcomes of that choice. The next several sections discuss reasons why parents; the school; the community; businesses; federal, state, and local governments; and the military care if students dropped out of school. Thirteen questions are listed which ask potential dropouts about problems related to schooling. It is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dropout Prevention, High School Students, High Schools, Potential Dropouts, Student...
This document presents the results of the Youthpoll, a survey administered to 1971 freshmen at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The survey was designed to find if students approved of the named activity, have participated in it, or would participate in it in the future. The activities under question were: carrying picket signs; taking soft drugs (marijuana, etc.); taking hard drugs (heroin, etc.); demonstrating non-violently for a just cause; demonstrating non-violently for any...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Activism, College Freshmen, Demonstrations (Civil), Higher Education, Social...
This paper reports results of efforts over a 7-year period (1960-67) to determine if the Hayes Pupil-Teacher Reaction Scale is a reliable, valid unidimensional instrument which may be used to measure the attitude of students toward the teaching effectiveness of their teachers. Criteria used were 1) each respondent's total score describes with at least 90 percent accuracy which items were reacted to favorably or unfavorably; 2) the item marginals, or the percentage of favorable responses to each...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Measurement Instruments, Reliability, Student Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation,...
The counseling center at Cherry Creek High School was moved from a remote part of the high school to one of the busiest areas, across from the library and student lounge. The physical facilities consist of a large, open and carpeted area with desks, comfortable chairs, tables, and bookshelves filled with material related to counseling. Conference rooms for privacy, group work, or teacher-counselor group meetings were provided. Each counselor was, and is, scheduled out of the office for one-half...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counseling, Facilities, Guidance Centers, High School Students, Student Attitudes,...
The purpose of this study was to find out which environmental characteristics influence student satisfaction and which can be altered or affected by architectural design. A questionnaire was designed which measured overall student satisfaction, as well as satisfaction with 25 specific environmental variables. The object was to evaluate the need for various architectural features in residence hall design by comparing satisfaction with the individual architectural feature with overall...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Architectural Character, Building Design, Dormitories, Environment, Higher Education,...
Recent reserach has attempted to determine systematically how attitudes influence behavior. This research examined whether access to attitude-relevant beliefs and prior experiences would mediate the relation between attitudes and behavior. Subjects were 49 college students with a mean age of 27 who did not live with their parents or in dormitories. Subjects' opinions toward preservation of the environment and their recall of preservation-related beliefs and experiences were assessed during the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior, College Students, Conservation (Environment), Higher Education, Recycling,...
To determine whether voice quality affects the way in which children with Down's syndrome are perceived, 24 undergraduate students at Auburn University (Georgia) viewed photographs of children (3 to 13 years old) with Down's syndrome. Two conditions were established: in the first, the photographs were paired with voice samples of the child pictured; in the second, the same photographs were paired with voice samples of non-retarded children. The undergraduates then rated each child on a 12-item...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Downs Syndrome, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Voice Disorders
This paper presents some empirical findings from the part of the International Socialization Project (an effort to collect more information about the socialization of sport involvement) which dealt with the attitudes of Swedish adolescents toward Olympic games. Attitudes towards the games are regarded here as indicators of affective involvement in sport. Interviews (130 questions) were conducted with Swedish youth at their schools in March and April 1974. The data is presented in descriptive...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Athletics, Questionnaires, Social Attitudes,...
Investigated with 110 university students taking an introductory gifted education course were the relationships between sex, three instructional levels (elementary, secondary, and special education), and reasons for taking the course. Data was collected over a 4-year period. Six reasons for taking the course were identified, which included that some students were curious about the gifted and creative; and that the major portion of the teachers were from elementary education and female. (SBH)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Exceptional Child Research, Gifted, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Teacher...
The Summer Planning Conferences are sessions attended by incoming freshmen to orient them to the State University of New York at Buffalo. During the day and a half they attend a conference, these future students become acquainted with the campus, they plan their academic program for the fall semester, and they complete various inventories for research purposes. One such inventory completed by the 1972 freshmen class was the Student Opinion Survey, a survey designed to elicit incoming freshmen's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Freshmen, College Students, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Faulman, Jane
In recent years, researchers have documented a convergence of gender roles in sexual interactions. In disagreement situations, where one partner desires a higher level of sexual activity than the other, man's traditional role was that of the aggressive initiator and woman's role was that of the passive recipient of unwanted sexual advances. Researchers have begun to study changes in these gender roles. This study was designed to determine whether this trend extends to behavior within sexual...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Sex Differences, Sexuality,...
A study explored advertising students' beliefs and attitudes about their learning and motivations within the context of the American Advertising Federation's (AAF) National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC). One hundred twenty-one students from 13 NSAC teams were surveyed in a 3-part questionnaire. Results indicated that students relished their competition experience generally. Results also indicated that students learned a great deal, and that they participated because of assumed job or...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advertising, Career Exploration, Competition, Higher Education, Student Attitudes,...