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The Alberta Journal of Educational Research

Published in Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter by the Faculty of Education,

University of Alberta

ajer is a quarterly journal devoted to the dissemination, criticism,

interpretation, and encouragement of all forms of systematic inquiry into

education and fields related to or associated with education.

Editor:

George H . Buck

Book Review Editor.

Hans Smits

Administrator:

Joyce Hiller

Editorial Assistant:

Edie Peters

Consulting Editors

Jim Anderson

University of British Columbia

Anthony W . Bartley

Lakehead University

Paul Begley

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

of the University of Toronto

Ardra L. Cole

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

of the University of Town to

Sharon M . Haggerty

University of Western Ontario

Susan H i l l

University of South Australia

Bobbi Kerlin

Portland State University

Pauline Leonard

Louisiana Tech University

Dianne Looker

Acadia University

Richard Morehouse

Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI

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Naomi Srinson

Proofreader:

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Dorine Chalifoux

Lorri Neilsen

Mount Saint Vincent University

Flora Ida Ortiz

University of California, Riverside

David Reid

Acadia University

Hans Smits

University of Calgary

Jeff Sugarman

Simon Fraser University

Jennifer Sumsion

Macquarie University

Kelleen Toohey

Simon Fraser University

Robert Wilson

Queen's University

Dean Wood

Keyano College

Jon C. Young

University of Manitoba

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University of Alberta

The Alberta Journal of

Educational Research

Volume XLVI, Number 4, Winter 2000

George H. Buck 291

Editorial

Articles

J. Tim Goddard 293

Edwin G. Ralph 311

Teaching in Turbulent Times:

Teachers' Perceptions of the Effects of

External Factors on Their Professional

Lives

Aligning Mentorship Style With

Beginning Teachers' Development:

Contextual Supervision

Salvador J. Badali

Billie E. Housego

Anthony Clarke

Ted Riecken

Eileen Wood

Charlene Y. Senn

Serge Desmarais

Norine Verberg

Lisa Kelly-Vance

Angela Caster

Amy Ruane

327

Teachers' Secondment Experiences

346 A

School Advisor Association: Seeking

Ways to Change Substantively the Role

Played by Classroom Teachers in

Preservice Teacher Education

356

Offering Sexual Health Fairs to

Supplement Existing Sex Education

Programs: A n Evaluation of Adolescent

Students' Knowledge Needs

372 Nongraded versus Graded Elementary

Schools: A n Analysis of Achievement

and Social Skills

Research Note

391

Guidelines

Mike Carbonaro

Joyce Bainbridge

392

Design and Development of a Process for

Web-based Survey Research

Book Reviews

Thomas G. Hamilton

399

Researching Education: Data, Methods and

Theory in Educational Inquiry

by David

Scott and Robin Usher

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