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Woolverton, Genevieve Alice; Pollastri, Alisha R. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2021
Within classrooms, psychologists and teachers use direct behavior observation methods, systematic behavior observations (SBOs) and direct behavior ratings (DBRs), to gather information about students' behaviors for the purposes of making decisions related to diagnosis and classroom management or behavioral feedback respectively. Observers use SBOs…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Classroom Observation Techniques, Behavior Rating Scales, Behavior Patterns
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Schermer, Maike; Fosker, Tim – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2020
Arguably one of the most valuable tools for investigating pupil behaviour in an educational environment is systematic classroom observation. Classroom observation is often cited as having the potential to enable research of the learning process in action. Low inference classroom observation instruments are designed to record a sequence of data…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Learning Processes, Intervals, Individual Differences
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Belasko, Maitane; Herrán, Elena; Anguera, M. Teresa – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
The goal of this research is to analyze the instrumental behavior of the caregiver at the Emmi Pikler nursery school in Budapest while dressing children from two to three years old to go outdoors to play in the garden. In order to study this routine in its usual context, the observational methodology has been chosen, adopting an "ad hoc"…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Play, Preschools, Foreign Countries
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Schaffer, Eugene; Stringfield, Samuel; Devlin-Scherer, Roberta – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2017
Two years after participating in a replication of the Stallings Effective Use of Time (EUOT) Program, ten teachers were re-observed and interviewed to determine the extent to which they had maintained the measured changes in their behavior patterns. Subjects were selected for the follow-up from a 27 EUOT teacher sample based on having exhibited…
Descriptors: Staff Development, Teacher Behavior, Followup Studies, Inservice Teacher Education
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Snodin, Navaporn S. – Computers & Education, 2013
The findings of this study support the argument made by many learner autonomy scholars that the road to autonomy is a process conditioned by each individual's zone of proximal development (ZPD) and that there are different degrees of autonomy. The description of behavioural patterns found from the experiment supports this notion. The findings show…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Integrated Learning Systems, Online Courses, Blended Learning
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Scope, Alison; Empson, Janet; McHale, Sue; Nabuzoka, Dabie – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2007
The objective of this paper is to report the development and use of an observation checklist to identify typically developing children with behavioural manifestations associated with inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. This measure is termed the Scope Classroom Observation Checklist (SCOC). The SCOC was developed, assessed for reliability…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Conceptual Tempo, Classroom Observation Techniques, Academic Achievement
Cantwell, Linda – Educational Horizons, 2006
In this article, the author examines the added value of strengths-based interventions in response to her college president's challenge that an educator should not be simply out for a talk in teaching. She redesigned her dissertation experiment to measure the impact of strengths-based teaching in two classrooms of Introduction to Public Speaking…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Public Speaking, Competency Based Education, Quasiexperimental Design