It has been demonstrated that interaction analysis is a useful tool for helping teachers not only to hold illustrations of their teaching for future analysis but also to focus on and analyze specific aspects of their verbal instructional behavior. Apparently, four conditions are necessary to enable teachers to analyze and evaluate their…

Reported is an observational analysis process termed "macroanalysis" which involves the analysis of interactive dialogue in chains or sequences of coded behavior rather than in terms of conventional matrices and ratios. All existing 3-, 4-, and 5-tally chains are extracted directly from an observer's coded tallies. This paper includes a…

Developed was a category system for systematic observation of the verbal and non-verbal behavior of high school biology teachers in both classroom and laboratory situations. This system was used to study the similarities and differences existing between the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) and non-BSCS teachers. Individual teachers…

Reports degree of relationship between assessments of teachers' procedural and verbal behavior made independently by teacher self report, student checklists, and the observations of an outside observer. (AL)

THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE VERBAL BEHAVIOR OF STUDENT TEACHERS AND THE ACHIEVEMENT AND SELECTED ATTITUDES OF EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS. TEN STUDENT TEACHERS PARTICIPATED IN A WORKSHOP DESIGNED TO PREPARE THE STUDENT TEACHERS TO TEACH SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY. THE STUDENT TEACHERS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR TEACHING A…

Developed was a category system for first-hand systematic observation of the verbal and non-verbal behavior of high school biology teachers in both classroom and laboratory situations. This was used to investigate correlations between selected personality traits and the verbal and non-verbal behaviors of high school biology teachers. Some…

The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of microteaching as an alternative to the traditional observation-discussion method of supervising student teachers. A sample of eight pre-service science teachers was randomly assigned, half to one condition and half to the other. Approximately six hours of verbal interaction data…

Students in general chemistry courses in four colleges in New York were given the American Chemical Society-National Science Teachers Association High School Chemistry Examination, Hand's "Scale to Study Attitudes toward College Courses; the Purdue Instructor Performance Indicator," and a chemistry background questionnaire. Lectures and tutorial…

Interaction process analysis was used to study the verbal behavior patterns of 10 junior high science teachers. For each teacher, the highest and lowest ability intact classes with whom the teacher worked were studied. Findings revealed that teachers were significantly more indirect and asked more divergent and evaluative questions of the higher…