This research assessed whether, within the context of a classroom session, the pattern of questioning and discussion used by teachers is related to the pattern of student responses. Clear and comprehensible linkages between questioning and answering behaviors were found in this study. These results indicate that researchers can help resolve the…

Guidelines are offered for college professors conducting a college course for credit to a group of teachers on-site in their school. The problems implicit in this situation are pointed out, and specific recommendations are made for overcoming them. (JD)

The Munby system for coding classroom interaction is an observation system constructed to study the intellectual consequences of varying kinds of science teaching behaviors. The initial use of the system called for making judgments about small portions of teaching, arbitrarily determined from a transcript of the teaching in question. Recent work…

Describes a technique for illustrating basic chemical engineering skills in reactor design and process analysis. (SL)

Discusses assignments in discourse analysis and students' recurring methodological errors. (PD)

Major differences found were that inner-city teachers talked more about procedural activities, while advantaged teachers talked more about cognitive activities, and that advantaged students had twice as much student-initiated talk as disadvantaged. (RT)

Describes a program of advanced instruction which attempts to merge the theory of speech communication and the practice of oral history. Is concerned with how meaning is constructed through conversation between interviewer and interviewee. Includes theoretical and methodological problems inherent in producing oral histories, field research, and…

Discusses conditions and methods that result in receptivity to learning and advocates their incorporation in language teaching. (RM)

This tightly focused profile of an exceptionally able elementary school teacher includes background material on her youth and early years in teaching as well as an in-depth analysis of her teaching methods and relationships with students. Videotapes of her classroom performance and retrospective interviews were used to obtain information. An…

In a microsupervision workshop experiment designed to investigate group differences in acquiring an indirect style of supervisory conference behavior, 18 elementary school inservice teachers were randomly assigned to a video-modeling, written-modeling and performance-feedback treatment or non-treatment. Criterion performances were the frequency…

Statistical interactions between two instructional methods and five cognitive aptitudes were examined to determine whether the methods are most effective among different learners. Sixth grade students (n=275) were randomly assigned to eight periods of rule-example (ruleg) or example-rule (egrule) programmed instruction in critical thinking.…

Classroom protocols collected within this volume are examples of the protocols from grade 5 developed by the ethnographers associated with Special Study A: "An Ethnographic Study of the Forty Classrooms of the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study." Twenty teachers at both the second and fifth grades were observed for one week by an…

This investigation studied that relationship between structured teacher-student verbal interaction and critical thinking ability of students in an introductory course in general college biology. This interaction took the form of lecture, of discussion using broad questions, and of discussion using narrow questions as the three primary teaching…

The author describes an instructional film program for counselors-in-training that employs a teaching strategy based on the principle of counselor therapist developmental tasks. The tasks are specific enough for the majority of students to grasp the concept or learn the skills, yet are not so finite as to be of dubious relevance to the complex…