Reports results of study conducted in suburban school districts to determine relationship existing between perceptions teachers hold of themselves and their patterns of verbal interaction in the classroom. (DS)

It was concluded that important differences occurred in interaction patterns, but not in pupil affect, when two different curricular organizing strategies were used. (Author)

Investigates teacher reformulation of student talk in order to determine the manner in which teachers affect student meaning and expression. Findings indicate that reformulation is a device used by teachers to control classroom dialog and that teachers disproportionately perform the language functions most commonly associated with higher-order…

TO DETERMINE IF A TEACHER'S INCIDENTAL IMITATION OF THE VERBAL BEHAVIOR PATTERNS OF HIS SUPERVISOR INFLUENCES HIS OWN CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR AND IF CERTAIN TEACHERS ARE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE THAN OTHERS TO THIS INFLUENCE, THE MINNESOTA TEACHER ATTITUDE INVENTORY AND THE PRELIMINARY SITUATION TEST (AN INSTRUMENT DESIGNED TO MEASURE THE PREFERENCE FOR…

THIS EXPERIMENT WAS BASED ON 2 HYPOTHESES--(1) INTERNS WHO LEARN AND APPLY FLANDERS' INTERACTION ANALYSIS WILL BECOME MORE INDIRECT IN THEIR VERBAL CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR THAN INTERNS NOT LEARNING THIS TECHNIQUE. (2) THERE IS A RELATION BETWEEN INTERNS' PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR TEACHING PROBLEMS AND THEIR CLASSROOM VERBAL BEHAVIOR. TWO EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS…