It was hypothesized that when no standard of "good teaching" is set for the self-evaluation of teaching performance, behavior changes and patterns of information selection would be determined by the teacher's satisfaction with his performance (the smaller the satisfaction, the fewer self-evaluating changes take place and the less teaching-related…

This paper makes an informational analysis of teachers' verbal discourse. A behavioral analysis is also made in terms of "tacts" and "mands," as defined by Skinner. These behavioral components of a message may be quantified in terms of "originality,""redundancy," and "complexity." But the most…

Social learning theory is the theory that is applied through microteaching. The two critical sets of social learning variables mediated through microteaching are those associated with modeling and feedback. Microteaching is also a way of bringing specific teaching responses under experimental and behavioral control. Thus in each microteaching…

The Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study, Phase II, was a research project on effective teaching behavior--what teachers do that significantly affects what and how pupils learn. The purposes of Phase II were to (1) develop an assessment system for measuring teacher and student behaviors and other factors which could influence each of them and their…

Two data-sets were used to assess the relation of teaching performances to pupil learning: (1) direct observations of teaching; and (2) teacher's reports on teaching activities and measures of pupil achievement. (MM)

The National Commission on Performance-Based Education was formed to coordinate and integrate nationally plans of performance-based teacher education. The goals of the commission are defining competence, evaluating it, training for it, and managing programs of performance-based education and certification. The initial programs of the commission…

Phase II of the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study was designed to provide data relevant to policies that might be developed for teacher preparation and licensing. A portion of the data from Phase II is used to illustrate how the research was designed to answer these policy questions and how the data implies provisional answers to them. To answer…

The two major goals of this study were (1) to estimate the magnitude of the effects of teaching performance and (2) to determine if some teaching performances were more associated with greater pupil learning than others. (MM)

Research indicates that teacher effects are detectable and that teachers do significantly influence the academic growth of students. (MM)

Discusses the problems to be solved in designing behavior modification systems for teacher education. (Author/RK)

A first attempt to investigate effects of viewing videotapes of one's teaching behavior is reported. Thirty-eight teaching interns at a California State College viewed videotapes of their practice teaching without the presence of a supervisor or guidelines. No control group was used. Pre- and post-viewing questionnaires and interviews were…

Significant relations were found in this study between how teachers teach and how much children learn in reading and mathematics. The general picture which emerged from the data had two features; first, a pattern of teaching practices is more likely to be related to learning than a single practice and, second, effective teaching patterns will…

A study to determine the effects of certain teaching methods on English proficiency is summarized. Participants were students and teachers of English as a second language at the West New York (New Jersey) Adult Learning Center. A pretest, observation, post test design was used. Data on student background characteristics such as age, sex, previous…

This volume provides a technical summary of research conducted at the West New York (New Jersey) Adult Learning Center with adults in English as a second language classes. The study was conducted in order to determine the relation of teaching strategies and performances to the acquisition of skills in spoken English. Student proficiency was…