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This study is based on the evaluation of the Methods Experience Project (MEP) in the College of Education at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. Specifically, the study identifies and describes the nature and direction of possible changes in selected preservice teacher behavior which occurred during the project and explores the relationship of these changes to teaching behavior. The person-oriented variables of openness vs. closedness; generalized expectancies for internal or external control of reinforcement; and personality traits were investigated. The role-oriented variables of situational role conflict, personal role conflict, teaching performance, and teaching attitude were also explored in 157 elementary education majors. Analysis of data reveal a) the MEP students reflect both greater situational and personal role conflicts than the control students; b) MEP students have personalities that are better suited for teaching than the control students; and c) no differences in teaching behavior exist among students, although the MEP students develop a more positive attitude toward teaching than the control students do. The study emphasizes the need for further research and evaluation and presents questions that would delineate areas of further investigation into preservice teacher education curriculum. (Seventeen tables of data are included.) (BRB)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert