This list consists of 89 descriptions of methods for coding or describing activities as an observer. Included are systems for use in measuring general activity in classrooms and others for collecting data on specific events. The bibliography covers infants, grades K-12 and teacher behaviors, marital interaction, parent and child behavior, and…

Included in this bibliography are over 3,200 references to publications on Halley's Comet, its history, orbital motion, and physical characteristics, meteor streams associated with it, preparations for space missions to study it in 1986, and popular reaction to its appearances. Also cited are a few papers that, although they devote little…

The ten items in this annotated bibliography are articles and documents in the ERIC system concerning evaluation of teachers. Research surveys cited focus on the present state of teacher evaluation, the use of observation reports, how often teachers desire to be evaluated, and principals' ideas of teacher effectiveness. Other topics covered are…

This handbook reviews several methods for conducting a needs assessment, including surveys, observation, testing, public hearings, spatial analysis, and conferences. A detailed section on the development of questionnaires is provided, and the appendices include samples of questionnaire information handouts, a nominal group process technique,…

Annotates six books dealing with (1) astronomy, (2) industry in space, (3) observation, (4) oceanography, and (5) robots. (FL)

Abstracts are presented of research studies on various methods of teacher evaluation. The purpose of this study was to seek out those factors in evaluation programs that are necessary for enhancing teacher effectiveness. The research studies are organized by four categories: (1) status of teacher evaluation; (2) attributes of successful evaluation…

An overview of self-monitoring and an extensive bibliography on the topic is presented. Self-monitoring involves systematic self-observation followed by self-recording. There is substantial evidence that self-monitoring has utility as an assessment procedure and as a behavior modification technique. Self-monitoring also has several assets in terms…

The reform of mathematics and science teaching and learning in school classrooms has been underway for the past two decades. A review of the literature performed on the ERIC CD ROM system yielded a selected bibliography of 154 items identifying several areas of current activity that are included in research and development projects focused on…

This chapter of "The Best of the Best of ERIC," Volume 2, contains 17 summaries of documents and journal articles on teacher evaluation, all of which are indexed in either "Resources in Education" or "Current Index to Journals in Education." The materials included deal with various aspects of this topic, such as the current state of teacher and…

A method of examining individual variation in responses to Inhelder-Piaget formal reasoning tasks is proposed as a means of identifying cognitive style components of formal reason and as a means of generating more complete descriptions of observable manifestations of formal reasoning. The method is one used by human ethologists and consists of…

Discusses the use of 39 new fiction and nonfiction travel-related titles to enable children to practice thinking skills in a nonthreatening environment. Examples for teaching inference, observation, prediction, comparison, and contrast are provided. Examples can be used as entry points for booktalks or introductions to other kinds of programs.…

Different methods and instruments used to assess medical problem solving are discussed. Various features of the instruments are compared and suggestions for additional data are made, in order to ensure maximum efficiency in the choice of instruments. (Author/MH)

Designed to aid in Chapter 1 evaluation efforts, this bibliography provides information about types of tests and other measures designed to assess young children. Bibliographic summaries were based on information from publishers' manuals and scholarly reviews. Criteria for including a test in the bibliography were that the test: (1) was designed…

This paper briefly reviews studies pertaining to the imitation of facial gestures in early infancy. It is suggested that imitation provides for the initiation of a reciprocal exchange between mother and infant, but does not sustain such an interaction, since this requires a continually varied and changing pattern of gestures. Thus there is an…

To help evaluators find the right measurement instrument, this annotated bibliography lists 46 compendia listing, reviewing, or presenting instruments devoted to (1) psychological/behavioral assessment; (2) mental health; (3) physical health; (4) sociological scales; (5) attitudinal scales; (6) observational measures; (7) standardized tests; and…