The Reciprocal Category System (RCS) is an observational system used to record and assess teacher-student classroom verbal interaction. The RCS is composed of nine verbal categories which are applicable to either the student or teacher (and as such are numbered differently, thus producing 18 categories) and one additional category--silence or…

This study assesses the influence of an elaborative vs. non-elaborative teaching style on children's nursery school behavior. (Elaborative teachers elicit more comments from the child, and offer more options for solving problems than non-elaborative teachers). Subjects, 24 white children of welfare mothers, were assigned to an elaborative…

Little research has been done in the area of counseling within the secondary school. This research was designed to analyze verbatim transcriptions of secondary school counseling interviews in order to establish a description of school counselee verbal behavior. A total of 50 transcripts involving 50 different counselees were used. The interviews…

In order to teach reading effectively to students who use a nonstandard dialect, the teacher must accept and understand the systems and patterns of that dialect. He can then help his students avoid the characteristics of their dialect which lead to confusion in communication, promote their accurate decoding of standard English as they learn to…

A study was conducted to test four hypotheses: (1) There are differences in the total number of interactions that a teacher has with pupils whom she has rated differently. (2) The teacher interacts more directly with those pupils she rates low than with those she rates high. (3) The teacher interacts more indirectly fewer times with those pupils…

The National Health Survey Act of 1956 provides for the establishment and continuation of a National Health Survey to obtain information about the health status of the population in the United States. The psychological component of the Survey is included to provide a more complete assessment of the health and well-being of the population. A first…

The formal study of social dialects has received increasing attention since about the middle of the sixties. In linguistics, the study of social dialectology has resulted in the clear demonstration of the importance of sociolinguistic variation in linguistic theory in contrast to the former preoccupation with linguistic universals. In education,…

This experiment, one of four in a series dealing with day care, examines the verbalizations of 36- to 40-month-old children in family and group day care environments. Verbalizations were classified as simple or complex. Frequency of verbalizations in specific day care settings was recorded. A total of 48 subjects participated: 16 in the family day…

The objective of this study was to assess changes in verbalized cognitive inquiry behaviors of teachers and students who participated in the McREL Instruction Staff Development Program in Inquiry. Twenty-four participating secondary teachers were videotaped before and after instruction. Teacher and student verbalized inquiry behaviors were coded…

A research team from the School of Journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, designed a research methodology for tracing the flow of interpersonal communication in a community in a crisis situation. They devised a completely detailed research plan including advance arrangements, a trained research team, a suitable survey instrument, and…

The purposes of this cross-cultural experiment were to: (1) observe whether nonverbal teacher warmth increases the learning and verbal communication of Eskimo students, and (2) determine if Eskimos are more sensitive than whites to teacher warmth. Twenty village Eskimo students and 20 urban white students from the ninth grade, equally divided by…

The process of assertive training is described with emphasis placed on its applicability to problems in female assertiveness. Male and female members of four assertive training groups were compared on the Wolpe-Lazarus assertive inventory. Male members obtained a significantly lower score than female members i.e., men reported themselves as…

In association with an extensive examination of the disclosure literature, this paper describes two laboratory studies designed to yield information regarding the effects of reinforcement on self-disclosing behaviors in an exchange process. In one series, the experimenters manipulated the patterns of personal reward/cost experiences, hypothesizing…

Paper presented at a regional convention of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 1971. Described is some of the recent literature in classroom communication analysis based on fundamental cognitive processes. A logical analysis of teaching and teacher verbal behavior is presented. Included is a description of…

This pamphlet contains many guidelines and suggestions for increasing communication effectiveness. Some typical communication problems and several theories of communication are examined; suggestions for improving reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills are offered. Special clues for radio and television communication are also included.…