The Student Behavior Analysis System is a simple, reliable instrument for evaluating student behaviors and providing feedback to teachers on the efficiency and quality of their instructional strategies. (MB)

This monograph, published as the first Yearbook of the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science (AETS), focuses on three areas of the research literature relating to teacher behavior. The first section presents a review of studies concerned with instrument development for the analysis of teacher behavior in science classrooms. The…

The purpose of this research was to conduct a preliminary analysis of a new instrument designed to measure the psychological environment of the classroom. The instrument, the Classroom Environment Index (CEI), has been developed in an initial form. The structure was essentially the same as the other Syracuse Indexes (College Characteristics Index,…

Before researchers can adequately establish empirical relationships between teacher behavior as an independent variable and student achievement as a dependent variable, when studying teacher effectiveness, they must deal with the problems of instrumentation, methodology, and statistics. (MM)

Instruments, not previously reported in the literature, for observational techniques that can be used in early childhood classrooms are described. Excluded are those instruments which the Research for Better Schools, Inc., a regional laboratory, will report. Section I of this report is an introduction to observational procedures and especially to…