Making and using needle-sort cards fosters logical thinking, facilitates accumulation of factual knowledge in geography and can be applied students at any grade level. (JH)

Author describes his objections to the predictive codification of behavioral objectives" in disciplines such as English and, more specifically, in literature-teaching. (Author/DR)

Essays and essay tests need to be a central feature of every class. Informing students about what is inadequate in their essays and counseling them on how to improve seem to be impossible, time-consuming tasks. The use of codes or abbreviations is described. (MLW)

This article discusses a cataloging and coding system especially designed for language lab courseware. (Author/NCR)

Discusses the use of visual media as symbol systems that gather, package, and convey knowledge. Media's different and often unique symbol systems are looked at as potentially serving as cultivators of mental abilities. Forty-nine references are provided. (Author/CHC)

Attempts to make peace between the "code-breakers or those who believe that teaching reading is clueing students to the system of turning print into their already-familiar language, and the "meaning-pursuers or those who believe that teaching reading is more than the pronunciation of sounds and should include the significance of the passage,…

In this article, the authors report on two international case studies that used comparable applications of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and were undertaken in comparable academic areas and levels of study. In the two cases, the authors explored faculty resistance to the use of ICTs for teaching and learning in higher…

The objective of the project was to develop two coding systems, one on teaching strategies and one on pupil involvement in classroom activities. Videotape sequences served as test data for refining the categories. Codings were analyzed for clustering of teaching behaviors into teacher roles and relationships between teacher behavior and pupil…

Video- and sound-tape recordings of 96 lessons in one Finnish school were analyzed using the Bellack Classification System. The lessons were composed of Finnish, arithmetic, civics, drawing, religion, and music for Grades 3 and 4. During the coding process, it was found that the Bellack system was not very suitable for describing instruction at…

This coding manual was developed for the Texas Teacher Effectiveness Study and is intended to be self-contained. The coding system provides for extensive coding of student initiated questions and comments, opinion questions, and expanded private work contracts, both teacher initiated and student initiated, including extensive coding of quality and…

The First-Grade Reading Group Study is an experimental examination of teaching behaviors and their effects in first-grade reading groups. The specific teaching behaviors of interest are defined by a model for small group instruction which describes organization and management of the class, and ways of responding to children's answers that are…

Time coding forms, rating scales, interview schedules, and a questionnaire were developed for use in the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study, a project designed to evaluate teaching effectiveness as demonstrated by student achievement in second and fifth grade reading and mathematics. The forms used to record data and the manuals detailing the…