This paper is based upon a thesis presented to Purdue University by the senior author in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the master's degree.

Observation and interview forms for a study of the design of child care facilities and outdoor play areas are offered in this document. Researchers were interested in obtaining a general overview of facilities and conducting both informal observations of children's use of space and informal, semi-directed interviews with parents, staff and two…

The purpose of this study was to examine child-selected play activities of three-, four-, and five-year-old children to determine whether the choices reflected society's traditionally sex stereotyped labels. Subjects were 50 students enrolled in two nursery school programs at a midwestern university during the autumn of 1979. Three observers…

The focus of this paper is on the theory of ethnographic methodology. A body of observational studies in social science and educational research is noted, demonstrating methodological statements about ethnography. Methodological procedures are described, along with possible standards of adequacy for their use. The use of the methodology is…

Sequenced Peer Teaching/Video-Tape Recording: Playback (SPT/VTR: P) is a short-term, in-service program for the augmentation of instruction. It offers a way for instructors to observe their own instruction and that of their colleagues in a context that provides for maximum attention to teaching. An instructor plays a sequence of videotaped…

Data from three classroom observation instruments (Florida Taxonomy of Cognitive Behavior, Reciprocal Category System, and Teacher Practices Observational Record), used simultaneously by three-member teams to observe 117 teachers and their students, were subjected to factor analysis to identify and define their discrete and overlapping areas and,…

A study was designed to determine whether the presence or absence of a classroom observer and the prior knowledge or lack of knowledge that an observation was to occur would affect the verbal behavior of teachers as measured by the Flanders System of Interaction Analysis. The variables were dichotomized yielding a 2 x 2 x 2 experimental design…

A scheme of student cognitive growth is suggested by a combination of Piaget's developmental stages and Bruner's imagery-related stages: the concrete level, for which imagery is not necessary; the concrete-imagery level, with imagery for enrichment of the concrete; the representational level, for which imagery is needed to make the translation to…

A 3-week summer institute was conducted for 84 cooperating teachers, half of them elementary and half secondary teachers, 85 percent of them from the DeKalb area. Objectives were to develop their desire to work with student teachers and their concern for quality student teaching and to develop technical and human relations skills necessary for…

Four indices for investigating inter-observer accuracy in observational instruments (contingency coefficient, Scott's pi, Bernstein's coefficient, and percent agreement) are reviewed concerning their assumptions, formulation, and tables indicating numerical functioning. Three of the four indices (excluding the contingency coefficient) are compared…

This book reproduces accounts of some of the early experimental child-centered schools. Also included is an essay on the relationship between play and learning written in the early 1900's. Early efforts at observing and recording the behavior of young children are reported. It is suggested that this book may help contemporary educators understand…

The Test of Science Processes was administered as a pre- and post-test to 92 eighth grade students studying the first five chapters of the Introductory Physical Science materials to determine if process learning was significantly changed. The students were in four homogeneously grouped classes all taught by the same teacher. There were significant…

Neither teachers nor students have been instructed in the meaning of non-verbal communication. Several assumptions are presented regarding the nature of non-verbal communication. It has been difficult to do research and reporting in this field due to difficulty in data collection, the complexity of human communication, analization difficulty,…

THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO DETEMINE IF THE QUALITY AND LOGISTICS OF SUPERVISION IN TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS COULD BE IMPROVED BY SUBSTITUTING VIDEO RECORDINGS FOR LIVE CLASSROOM OBSERVATIONS. RESULTS SHOWED THAT (1) TEACHER TRAINEES WHO RECEIVE FEEDBACK ON THEIR TEACHING PERFORMANCE MAKE GREATER CHANGES IN SELECTED BEHAVIORS THAN TRAINEES…