The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a significant difference in the verbal responses and test responses of high school biology students as a result of training in higher level questioning of student teachers. The sample included two groups of 28 biology student teachers. The experimental group was instructed in the use of…

The Flanders system of Interaction Analysis is used to determine whether a teacher is indirect or direct in his approach to motivation and control in the classroom. The system describes, rather than evaluates, teacher behaviors in the order in which they occur, in any subject at any level. It does not, however, include nonverbal behaviors and…

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of an inservice teacher education on indirect instruction. The sample was comprised of 25 junior high school teachers from the state of New York. All 25 teachers were taped three times at the beginning of the school year, three times at the middle of the year, and three times at the end.…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate factual knowledge changes, amounts of verbal interaction, and attitudinal changes that occurred in the area of sex education with three different groups of high school seniors. Group I consisted of 24 boys and girls, Group II of 28 girls, and Group III of 15 boys. Changes in factual knowledge were measured…

THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE VERBAL BEHAVIOR OF STUDENT TEACHERS AND THE ACHIEVEMENT AND SELECTED ATTITUDES OF EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS. TEN STUDENT TEACHERS PARTICIPATED IN A WORKSHOP DESIGNED TO PREPARE THE STUDENT TEACHERS TO TEACH SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY. THE STUDENT TEACHERS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR TEACHING A…