The purpose of this study was the development and testing of an instrument for measuring interaction behavior in small group communication. It was designed to produce valid and reliable measures for each dimension of such behavior. (Author/JB)

THIS PAPER REVIEWS RECENT MAJOR STUDIES CONCERNED WITH CLASSROOM INTERACTION WHICH ENCOMPASSES BOTH THE VERBAL AND NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR OF A TEACHER AND THE PUPILS IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY CLASSROOMS. REVIEW OF THE THEORIES UPON WHICH THESE STUDIES WERE BASED WAS NOT WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THIS STUDY. PART 1 BRIEFLY DISCUSSES TWO APPROACHES TO THE…

Providing a systematic investigation of the dimensional nature of relationships, this paper focuses primarily upon the control dimension of interpersonal relationships. After establishing a conceptual foundation of the control dimension, the paper next enumerates the verbal and nonverbal indicants of control in regard to their manipulative…

The purpose of this paper is to justify a technique, called reconstruction, that provides for the inclusion of implicit information in content analysis. (CK)

Persons quantifying classroom verbal interaction may obtain varying results as a consequence of using different media forms in their experiments. A study was done to see if the medium used in the codification process has an effect upon data obtained, and if so, what the nature of the effect is. Codification consists of the translation of observed…

Examines the timing of partners' talk in mother-infant engagements over infant age to determine whether variations occur in the incidence of the alternating mode. Findings reflect the facilitative effects of covocalization in preverbal infants and the need for the alternating mode with older infants. (31 references) (Author/CK)

This study sought to determine whether an in-service program would produce changes in teacher attitudes and in teacher-student verbal interaction in the classroom and whether the amount and direction of this change could be significantly measured. During an 8-week in-service program, an experimental group of 10 English and 10 mathematics teachers…

A self-report inventory was compared with a situational test as a predictor of the verbal behavior of individual members of small interpersonal skills training groups. As hypothesized, the situational test was a better predictor than was the self-report inventory. A powerful social conformity effect may have operated in both the situational test…