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Download full textGarfunkel, Frank – 1967
Six teachers were given instructions and materials with which to conduct a 20-minute teaching session. The sessions were filmed. The films will be scrutinized to obtain comparisons of teaching styles, tasks (the instructions and materials provided each teacher), and teacher-task interactions. The films have not been completely processed yet and so…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Films, Performance Factors, Preschool Teachers
Garfunkel, Frank – 1967
There are reasons why teaching behavior should be assessed, including (1) upgrading teacher education, (2) gaining insights into the learning of both teachers and children, and (3) studying social interactions. Two means of assessing teacher ability are quantification of teacher behavior by the use of rating scales, behavioral categories, etc.,…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Classroom Research, Evaluation, Measurement Techniques
Garfunkel, Frank – 1968
The purpose of this pilot project was to develop, use, and film teaching tasks to demonstrate their effectiveness in showing variations in teaching styles. Thirty teaching tasks designed to include a variety of curricular dimensions were developed by 6 observers with considerable experience as preschool teachers and observers; each task listed…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Films, Interaction Process Analysis
Garfunkel, Frank – 1967
With the purpose of obtaining relevant data about the curriculum, classroom, teacher, and peer effects on individual Head Start children, this project plans to have trained observers spend several hours in the classroom (1) attending to and recording the total functions of the class and (2) attending to and recording the behavior of individual…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Curriculum Evaluation
Garfunkel, Frank – 1967
Although specific procedures for "participant observation" (PO) vary, it is always based on the principle that while the observer (O) will adopt preconceived structural outlines and dimensional scales in the course of his summary, he--rather than any outlines or scales--is the instrument for inferring data. Applications of modified PO…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Schools, Films
Garfunkel, Frank; And Others – 1967
This document is a report of research conducted from September 1966 to August 1967 by the Head Start Evaluation and Research Center of Boston University. Eleven studies and projects are reported, many of them in preliminary or incomplete form because either they are ongoing studies or the data analysis is not finished. The 11 studies contain six…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Rating Scales, Clinical Diagnosis, Communication (Thought Transfer)
