Purpose: The study assessed the perceived need for inservice
training to improve the teaching of mathematics in primary schools
in Bendel State of Nigeria. Specifically, the study sought to
know where and when the primary school mathematics teachers need
inservice training to improve their standards of teaching elementary
mathematics. The...
This was an experimental study which compared two different
instructional methods, oral lesson closure versus
written lesson closure, on the achievement of 156 junior
high school students in social studies. This study was
composed of two duplicate experiments. Experiment I was
conducted with 71 seventh grade social studies students at...
The main purpose of this study was to examine the influence of
additional content from areas of mainstreaming and adapted physical
education on preservice elementary educators attitudes toward
teaching nonhandicapped and handicapped children in elementary
physical education. To achieve this goal (a) an instrument was
constructed to assess the attitudes...
The purpose of this study was to identify the effective teaching
characteristics of teachers who participated in the Mentor-Teacher
Program and teachers who did not, and then determine if there were any
significant differences between the three groups of teachers: (1)
Mentor-Teacher Program interns (G.T.A.'s), (2) outstanding O.S.U.
graduates, and...