Options for the 80's: Research That Makes a Difference. Proceedings of the Annual College of Education Graduate Conference, (2nd, St. Catherines, Ontario, November 6, 1982).

Overview & Synopsis

Proceedings of Brock University's Graduate Conference, which enabled Master of Education graduates to share their research findings, are presented. Twenty-seven papers are included on the following topics: reading, physical education and coaching, homelife affecting schooling, stress, board/administrator decision making, behavior disordered children, gifted children, computers in research, environmental education, invitational education, thinking skills, needs in science teaching, program evaluation, the hidden curriculum, discipline, inservice teacher education, and new directions in graduate education. Among the topics are the following: the alleged claims of superiority of the language experience approach to reading over the text method; promoting a positive self-concept in student through the physical education program; the relationship between life stresses and stresses in the teaching profession; performance review of school supervisory officers; students' use of a problem-solving method; evaluating sexism in the hidden curriculum; teacher training in curriculum process skills; and recent events in the Master of Education program and future possibilities. (SW)