Process-product research in which the investigator observes in teachers' classrooms and tries to relate process measures of teaching behavior to product measures of student outcome has face validity appeal and common sense logic. This research approach appears to be the simplest and most direct way to identify teaching behaviors which discriminate…

Teacher attitudes in the classroom can affect a child's level of accomplishment. (CK)

Teacher behavior toward two different groups of target students was altered by presenting teachers with information about their previous interaction with the target children. Changes in specified teacher behavior toward target children were accompanied by many additional changes in unspecified teacher behavior toward both target and nontarget…

High-inference measures of teacher process variables 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 showing the strength of relationships with success in producing student gains are…

This report discusses the linear-process relationships in a 2-year replicated study relating observed teacher behavior to measured learning gains. Correlations relate high and low inference measures of teacher behavior to measures of student learning gain on five achievement tests. The sample involved second and third grade teachers, selected…

This paper is one of a series presenting data from the Texas Teacher Effectiveness Project, a two-year observational study of second- and third-grade teachers who were consistent in producing student learning gains. The study was designed to identify relationships between teacher characteristics and student learning. Variables that were…

The paper explicates the rationale underlying the coding system, describes the classroom interaction variables subsumed within it, and discusses the special research and consultative advantages offered by this system. (Author)

The literature on self-fulfilling prophecy effects is reviewed, with emphasis on its application to in-service teachers and their students. It is concluded that a minority of teachers have major expectation effects on their students' achievement. (Author/PN)

Differential teacher behavior toward different students was studied in relation to the attitudes teachers held toward those students. (Authors)

Reviews research concerning how teachers determine the content their students learn and discusses both the conscious decision making involved in selecting curriculum and the unwitting reductions and distortions introduced into intended curriculum in the process of attempting to teach. (Author/MP)

Although the Classroom Observation Scales (COS), which measures general process variables stressed in previous classroom research, showed good stability across years and across contexts within years, they did not show the numbers and kinds of relationships with student learning gains expected on the basis of previous research. (Author/BJG)

Research on linkages between teacher behavior and student learning is examined. Present and possible future process-outcome research is assessed with an emphasis on methodological considerations. Compilation of detailed normative data about classrooms, including explication and integration of process-process as well as process-outcome…

Teacher Training should prepare teachers to develop intrinsic motivation to learn in children, rather than to consequate their learning efforts with extrinsic rewards. Examples of teacher behaviors believed necessary for fostering intrinsic motivation to learn are provided, along with suggestions for training teachers to use them in the classroom.…

A methodology for conducting research on managing the disruptive student based on identifying successful teacher strategies is described. The subjects of this study were teachers selected as being outstanding or average in their ability to cope with behavior problems. Data collection included two half-day classroom observations, a structured…

This report supplements two earlier 1973 reports by the authors concerning process product relationships in the first year of the Texas Teacher Effectiveness Project. The present report supplements the linear correlations given in the earlier reports by presenting nonlinear relationships in these data. Many such relationships indicate that optimal…