The Professional Reading Patterns of Texas Life Science Teachers

Koballa, Thomas R.

doi:10.1111/j.1949-8594.1987.tb11683.x

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“…The findings of Kramer are not dissimilar to those of other investigators over the ensuing five decades (Butler, 1985;Garverick, 1969;Koballa, 1987;Cogan and Anderson, 1977;Eicher and Wood, 1977;Balow, 1961;Morrison, 1952;Lauwerys, 1957). With but one exception (Fisher, 1958) the 68 journal articles, spanning 1929 to 1988, reviewed in connection with this study, spoke to the general disregard that educators have for the literature of their profession.…”

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Do Educators Use the Literature of the Profession?

Latham

1993

NASSP Bulletin

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Do Educators Use the Literature of the Profession?

Latham

1993

NASSP Bulletin

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“…In fact, many of these teachers ranked Science World as one of the two journals they found most helpful. This finding disturbed the researcher: Science World is a journal targeted for middle school students, not for middle school teachers (Koballa, 1987). By contrast, only four percent of the teachers ranked Scientific American as one of the two journals they found most useful.…”

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“…Cogan and Anderson (1977), for example, concluded that teachers spent very little time reading professional journals. A survey conducted by Koballa (1987) showed that middle school teachers of life science most often selected practical rather than theoretical journals about science or science teaching. In fact, many of these teachers ranked Science World as one of the two journals they found most helpful.…”

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Anti-Intellectualism in U.S. Schools

Howley

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Howley³

1993

EPAA

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In this essay we present an argument about the relationship between schools' intellectual mission and their role in advancing social justice. In providing an argument of this sort, we claim neither to present a comprehensive review of literature nor to analyze specific educational policies. Rather, we bring together findings about certain features of schools in the United States that we believe contribute to their anti-intellectualism. This examination allows us to tell a story about schools that we think needs to be told; and it also elaborates a frame of reference from which to reconsider schools' mission and practice. Reframing these bases of schooling may be a necessary prelude to educational policies that promote both intellectual and egalitarian outcomes.

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Professional education reading patterns of presidential science honorees

Barrow

1989

J Res Sci Teach

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The 422 Presidential Science Honorees participated in a Delphi study composed of two surveys. The first survey ascertained the science education journals, general education journals, science indexes, and education indexes that preservice secondary science education majors should be familiar with in their preparation program. There was a 53.9% return rate for the first survey, but data about science and education indexes was too limited for further analysis. The second survey included the most frequently mentioned science education and general education journals and a demographic component. There was a 72.5% return rate for the second survey with 92.1% of the first respondents completing the second survey. The respondents were 36.9% female and 59.8% male. Generally, the respondents were mainly high school teachers who have a Master's degree, are actively involved in their school system's inservice education program for science, attend professional meetings, submit manuscripts for publication, more recently completed a college science course than a college education course, and read science education journals more frequently and thoroughly than general education journals. The most frequently read journals tend to be of a practical orientation. Almost 60% of the respondents read more than one-third of each issue of The Science Teacher.

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The Professional Reading Patterns of Texas Life Science Teachers

Cited by 7 publications

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Do Educators Use the Literature of the Profession?

Do Educators Use the Literature of the Profession?

Anti-Intellectualism in U.S. Schools

Professional education reading patterns of presidential science honorees

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