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DeMarte, Patrick Jerome – 1971
A pretest-posttest control group design was used with 20 second- and third-grade teachers to answer questions related to the effectiveness of microteaching as a teacher training procedure. The group was divided into two experimental groups by random assignment. One group of 10 received microteaching training in a specific teaching skill. The other…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Instruction, Microteaching
Ashley, James Phillip – 1967
This study involved an inservice education program designed to enhance teacher behavior in the use of Science - A Process Approach. The major method of gaining information on teacher behavior was direct observation and involved the development and utilization of a Classroom Observation Rating Form (CORF). Twenty-three elementary teachers comprised…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elementary School Science, Inservice Education
Giese, Ronald Norman – 1971
The Wisconsin Inventory of Science Processes and the Scientific Attitude Inventory were given as pre- and posttests to 34 junior high school science teachers to determine if changes in knowledge of the processes of science and attitude toward science were produced as a result of a formal training program emphasizing a process oriented approach to…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Science Course Improvement Projects, Science Teachers
Stangl, George Ronald – 1971
This investigation was an attempt to determine the suitability of a highly structured course in science, Introductory Physical Science (IPS), for all eighth-grade students in a suburban school. The major measure for the evaluation of the course was to study the degree of teacher commitment to the objectives of the course and determine if this…
Descriptors: Achievement, Curriculum, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
Myers, Mary Jayne – 1971
Reported is a study to identify classroom practices of teachers using three new junior high school science curricular programs. Data from a 36-item student perception instrument, the Student-Teacher Participation Checklist (STPC), were obtained from a sample of 493 students. The teachers of these students were participants in a National Science…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Instruction
Lerner, Michael Alan – 1972
Reported is a study of the effect of selected modes of feedback on teacher behavior in a microteaching situation. Forty students enrolled in an elementary school science methods course participated in this study. Four groups were randomly organized into three treatment groups and one control group. One treatment group received verbal feedback from…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Media, Educational Research, Elementary School Science
Simmons, Herbert Nelson – 1973
This study describes a workshop designed to improve elementary science instruction by encouraging teachers to discard the "spectator" mode of participation and become involved in a program designed to be compatible to the objectives and philosophy of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS). A random sample of 224 teachers (the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers
