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Peer reviewedDuke, Daniel Linden – Psychology in the Schools, 1978
Observational data and survey information were collected on student behavior problems and discipline policies in a large suburban high school. Analysis of the data indicated that many of the concerns of teachers and administrators centered more around adult behavior than student behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Research Projects
Download full textStern, Joyce D. – 1973
The Work Group on Behavior Modification in Education, which issued this report, was authorized by Secretary Elliot Richardson on November 21, 1970. The body of this report includes an analysis of the benefits of behavior modification techniques in education, examples of their successful application with a variety of large student populations, an…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories
Peer reviewedWiener, Yoash; Gechman, Arthur S. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1977
Work commitment behaviors were defined as a special class of socially acceptable work behaviors exceeding formal and/or normative expectations relevant to work. For a sample of 54 female elementary school teachers, work commitment measures demonstrated moderate correlations with two attitudinal measures of job involvement and a job satisfaction…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Employee Attitudes
Jason, Leonard A. – 1977
This study investigates the reactive effects of observers on interactions between teachers (undergraduates and mothers) and toddlers in a preventive educational program. Findings indicate that the presence of an observer differentially affects interactional patterns in the home. More specifically, undergraduates and toddlers are relatively…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Home Instruction, Interaction Process Analysis, Mothers
Woolfolk, Robert L.; And Others – Environmental Psychology and Nonverbal Behavior, 1977
The effects of systematically varied verbal and nonverbal components of teachers' evaluative behavior upon children's perceptions and attitudes were studied within an experimental classroom. Subjects were 126 sixth-grade students. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Observation Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Potter, Ellen F. – 1978
It is argued that the sexes get different feedback from the culture, and from teachers in particular. The hypothesis is explored that teachers are less responsive to and interested in girls than boys, and that the feminine strategy of withdrawal and avoidance of assertiveness develops in response to these teacher behaviors. Subjects were eight…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Gagne, Ellen D.; Biddle, W. Barry – 1972
The purpose of the study was to test the discriminative cue hypothesis by attempting to train pupils to increase effort following a high expectancy condition and to reduce effort following a low expectancy condition. Fourth grade high-IQ low achievers were used as subjects in the study, because the authors felt that while they would learn fast,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
