Reviews changes in research on teaching and classroom learning. The research has gone from objective and descriptive studies, through correlational and experimental paradigms, to recent ethnographic and interpretive studies closely related to personal experiences of teachers. (PCB)

Presents a study which compared the achievement and basic process understanding of groups of pupils (12 fourth grade classes in four school systems) who were taught multidigit multiplication by either the distributive method or the lattice method. (ED)

Focuses on issues related to using recent findings from research as a knowledge base for making decisions about teacher mastery. Suggests that if the present body of knowledge about effective teaching is used to select master teachers, some excellent teachers will be overlooked and some ineffective teachers will be designated as masters. (RH)

In this article we examine the development, over 1 year, of mathematical discourse communities in 2 eighth-grade mathematics classes in a suburban public middle school. The curriculum topics included probability, functions, graphing, data analysis, and pre-algebra. The 50 students were heterogeneously placed; most were from upper-middle-class…

Reports on a field study conducted to determine whether a manual describing effective classroom management principles and guidelines could help elementary school teachers establish and maintain well-managed classrooms. (RH)

Argues that if schools are to be made more effective, educators must understand the interaction between their academic and socialization functions, as well as comprehend what happens in schools and the societal context in which schools are embedded. (MP)

Investigates the effects of one teacher's structuring and reacting behaviors on 53 second graders' learning of factual materials. Four treatment groups were established: high structuring and high reacting, high structuring and low reacting, low structuring and high reacting, and low structuring and low reacting. (RH)

Reviews the conceptualization, methodology, productivity, interpretation, and application of teaching research which focuses on the relation between classroom processes (teaching) and products (what students learn). (DE)

Focuses on student and teacher perceptions of psychosocial characteristics of the elementary school classroom environment. Profiles, comparing actual and preferred classroom environments, were assessed using the following five dimensions of the My Class Inventory (short form) (Fisher and Fraser): satisfaction, friction, competitiveness,…

The purpose of this investigation is to determine whether children can reliably indicate their own best sources of reinforcement. (Author)

Describes the background and context of how action research has grown in the Madison (Wisconsin) Metropolitan School District--the organization and process being used to help teachers and principals work on their research questions, the value of the experience as perceived by the participants, and lessons learned about implementing action research…

Describes ethnographic classroom research. Documents process approach to teaching of writing. Classroom teachers and researcher discuss (1) scheduling first-grade writing activities to improve transition from home to school, (2) using journals to encourage writing processes of second graders, (3) sharing as a motivation for writing, (4) approaches…

Teachers with relatively high scores on the Defining Issues Test of moral development, contrasted with teachers with relatively low scores, had a more democratic view of teacher and student roles, and saw rules as protecting the rights of individual students as well as the group's rights. (NH)

Reviews research in the areas of classroom organization and management, delineating the principles underlying a comprehensive approach to these areas. (MP)

Research on teachers' judgments, instructional planning, and decision making during classroom interaction is reviewed. (MP)