A SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING THOUGHT PROCESSES IN THE CONTEXT OF CLASSROOM VERBAL INTERACTION IS PRESENTED. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYSTEM IS NECESSARY TO THE STUDY OF THE VERBAL PERFORMANCE OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TO ASSESS THE QUALITY OF THINKING THAT IS ELICITED AND EXPRESSED IN THE COURSE AND CONTEXT OF CLASSROOM OPERATION. VERBAL PERFORMANCES…

Low-inference measures of teacher process variables from two behavioral observation systems were taken on a sample of 31 teachers selected because of their consistency in producing student learning gains on the Metropolitan Achievement Test and were correlated with student outcome measures. Correlations show the strength of relationships with…

This inquiry began with the observation that learning from instruction is radically more efficient for obtaining information than learning by discovery. A series of seven experiments was conducted to determine some of the factors involved in learning from verbal instruction. The perspective adopted was that of communication theory, in which the…

The direction that college and university instruction must move to is to a more informal structure of teaching procedures. Moving from a formal to an informal classroom can be accomplished by use of a series of changes that can be implemented easily over a short period of time. (Author)

We need large scale social involvement which will mobilize the forces and institutions of society to bring pressure to bear upon the educational system. Until teachers can step out of their central classroom positions and into the role of agents for change, we may be stuck with our present inadequate system. (Author/CB)

Describes a teacher inservice project intended to develop a language policy for using writing as a learning tool. Argues that the inservice context for teachers as learners is similar to that of the classroom and that the opportunity for talking should likewise be used for learning in the classroom. (HTH)

The function that a specific environment is said to fulfill depends critically on who is in control within the environment. The paper develops this argument and suggests how its implications might be tested empirically. (Author/AM)

Based on an approach that analyzes the structure of educational processes in relation to the structure of its outcome, this paper develops the argument that the function that a specific environment fulfills depends critically on who is in control within the environment, and suggests how the implications of this argument might be tested. The…

Communication between students is as important to students' learning as is communication between teacher and student. (IR)

Author attempts to understand the dimensions of the teaching art. He examines common sense and the cumulative teaching experience as two facets of that art. (Author/RK)

A distinction should be made between specific teaching methods (and their improvement) and the more global concept of teacher roles. There are important questions to be answered about how teachers view both the teaching learning process and their contribution to it, as well as how students contribute to this same process. Two men have developed…

The questioning behavior of college faculty is descriptively analyzed. The cognitive levels of questioning patterns of professors are described and the differences in these levels and patterns are examined across the variables of institution size (small or large), sector (public or private), course level (beginning or advanced), and discipline…

This study (condensed from an unpublished doctoral dissertation, "Teacher-Child Interaction: A Study of the Relationships between Child-Initiated Questions and Nursery School Teacher Behavior," Wayne State University, 1966) examines the teaching and learning processes set in motion when four-year-old children question their teachers in nursery…

The 1955 check-list consisted of 92 items giving students' perceptions of the teaching-learning process, and was suggested for use in teacher self-evaluation. It was revised in the spring of 1969 to incorporate results of recent research and to apply specifically to classes in high school English. Similar devices, together with articles and books…