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Mays, Violet – 1974
This study examined the conversation patterns of 26 Hawaiian kindergarten children in order to determine whether children with a Hawaiian Creole (HC) preference or a Standard English (SE) preference speak to each other. The normal interactions of the children (14 boys and 12 girls) were monitored during the learning center sessions of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Hawaiians
Woolfolk, Anita E. – 1977
Four combinations of teacher verbal and nonverbal evaluative behavior were studied within a controlled microlesson. Two male and two female teachers presented each of the four combinations--(a) verbally and nonverbally positive; (b) verbally positive and nonverbally negative; (c) verbally negative and nonverbally positive; or (d) verbally and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Group Dynamics, Interaction Process Analysis, Learning Motivation
Achilles, Charles M., Ed.; French, Russell L., Ed. – 1977
The 13 articles collected in this volume address various aspects of verbal and nonverbal communication in the educational setting. Among the subjects discussed are research in verbal and nonverbal communication, sex differences and social-class differences in teacher/student communication behavior, communication processes in adult basic education…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Behavior, Classroom Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Brophy, Jere E.; Good, Thomas L. – 1974
This book is about the kinds of individual differences in students that make differential impressions on teachers, the ways that such differential impressions lead teachers to form differential attitudes and expectations regarding different students, and the ways that these differential teacher attitudes and expectations begin to affect…
Descriptors: Bias, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research
Dweck, Carol S. – 1975
Sex differences in children's reactions to failure feedback in school situations were investigated by assessing the ways in which teachers use negative evaluation in the classroom. Three aspects of teachers' evaluative feedback were studied: (1) ratio of negative to positive feedback; (2) contingency vs. noncontingency of feedback; and (3) (the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Failure, Achievement, Behavior Patterns
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Nairn, Karen – New Zealand Journal of Geography, 1991
Describes the distribution of teacher interactions with male and female students in secondary geography classrooms. Reports that, in 70 percent of the classes, attention was unequally divided with the surplus in favor of males in 57 percent. Notes that the majority of geography students are female, whereas 80 percent of the teachers are male. (DK)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Females
Omvig, Clayton P. – 1989
A study examined teacher-student interaction in Kentucky's secondary and postsecondary vocational education classrooms. It investigated whether sex bias or inequities were present and what might explain such differences. A literature review focused on studies conducted at different grade levels with relation to sex bias and classroom interactions.…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Interaction