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Chung, Gregory K. W. K. – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background: Historically, significant advances in scientific understanding have followed advances in measurement and observation. As the resolving power of an instrument increased, so have gains in the understanding of the phenomena being observed. Modern interactive systems are potentially the new "microscopes" when they are…
Descriptors: Online Systems, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
Khattri, Nidhi – 1997
Several Federal programs and initiatives are underway to reduce crime and violence in the schools. In connection with these efforts, Congress had passed legislation requiring the National Center for Education Statistics to collect data about the seriousness and incidence of violence in elementary and secondary schools. This report presents an…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Crime, Data Collection, Databases
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Carifio, James; Biron, Ronald – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1982
Describes a simple, confidentiality-preserving, data-collection technique the Context-Determined, Rule-Generated, Pseudonym (CDRGP) Technique, capable of generating correlational data across multiple time-points. Experiments showed that students would respond to alcohol consumption questions using the technique and that no significant response…
Descriptors: Alcoholic Beverages, Behavior Patterns, Confidentiality, Correlation
Jennings, Rick L. – 1982
This manual summarizes and highlights basic considerations in interviewing children. The relationship between interviewing for data collection and interviewing within the counseling or psychotherapeutic context is discussed. The Interviewer's Functional Checklist is presented to provide a method for self-evaluating interviewer behavior, and for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Children, Communication Skills
Newfield, John – 1977
In order to develop a scientific theory of curriculum, a method for measuring the curriculum-related planning activity of teachers is proposed. This choice of focus is based on the assumption that a logical connection can be made between the level of teacher planning, the quality of the resulting actions, and the corresponding goal attainment by…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Collection
Simon, Anita, Ed.; Boyer, E. Gil, Ed. – 1974
The 99 observation systems described in this anthology describe measurable categories of behavior, rather than global concepts. These systems function as a meta-language--a language for describing communication. Each represents one or more of seven major categories: affective, cognitive, nonverbal, activity, content, sociological structure, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques