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Download full textDaryl V. Gilley; Smith, Sonja – 1978
A program designed to help student teachers improve their skills through interaction with their peers is described. The Peer Group Support System (P.G.S.S.) is a self-evaluation process. Participants in the P.G.S.S. are elmentary student teachers, secondary student teachers, selected students enrolled in general methods courses and the faculty of…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Group Discussion, Helping Relationship, Peer Evaluation
Johnson, Mary Canice – 1979
Dynamics of discussion in the classroom are analyzed based on data from 64 classrooms in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. Among the discourse problems considered are the separation of answers from questions, the relationship between the presupposition of an utterance and the speaker/hearer assumptions, and the relationship between utterance form and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Discussion
Wickens, David – 1980
"Games" is a decision-making process for groups to use in analyzing the educational needs of a school. During three group sessions, a moderator leads the participants through a series of activities in which they identify: 1) concerns about the educational program, 2) needs for program improvement, 3) resources that are being used in relation to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Discussion
KANTASEWI, NIPHON; MCCLAY, DAVID R. – 1964
THE PURPOSES OF THE STUDY WERE TO COMPARE (1) CONVENTIONAL LECTURE, PROGRAM-DISCUSSION, AND PROGRAM-PROBLEM METHODS OF INSTRUCTION, (2) STUDENT PERFORMANCE WITH AND WITHOUT CONFIDENCE IN PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION, AND (3) ACHIEVEMENT ON THE BASIS OF TEST SCORES ON THE FIRST ONE-THIRD OF THE CONVENTIONAL COURSE. TWO EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED IN…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction
COURSEN, HERBERT R., JR. – 1967
A COMPOSITION PROGRAM DESIGNED TO GIVE UPWARD BOUND STUDENTS A FEELING OF SUCCESS WAS BASED ON FILMS WHICH THE STUDENTS VIEWED, DISCUSSED, AND WROTE ABOUT. THE FILMS FELL ROUGHLY INTO THE CATEGORIES OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS, POLITICS AND PROPAGANDA, AND ART AND MUSIC. FOLLOWING CLASS DISCUSSIONS, STUDENTS WERE REQUIRED MERELY TO "WRITE ABOUT THE…
Descriptors: Conferences, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Psychology, English Instruction
Siegle, Peter E. – 1958
In a discussion of several liberal education programs for executives, those run for American Telephone and Telegraph at the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College, Williams College, Northwestern University, and programs at Clark University, Southwestern University, Wabash College, Pomona College, Aspen Institute, the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Business, Colleges, Curriculum
Lee, David G.; Hensley, Carl Wayne – 1978
Debate can provide a format for the development of communication skills to aid students in managing conflicts, because an understanding of rule-governed communication in conflict situations is invaluable in constructive conflict management. Since in debate procedural rules restrict discussion primarily to substantive and procedural topics, debate…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Debate, Group Discussion, Higher Education
American Library Association, Chicago, IL. Office of Intellectual Freedom. – 1977
"The Speaker," a film about the First Amendment concept of freedom of expression, deals with the personal torment that individuals experience in learning tolerance for ideas they fear or reject. This discussion guide for the film is intended for teenage through adult audiences and is designed to provoke discussion on the issues…
Descriptors: Conflict, Court Litigation, Democratic Values, Dissent
Bergevin, Paul; McKinley, John – 1965
Participation Training for Adult Education serves as a manual, guide, and resource for leaders and participants interested in establishing a program of adult learning called group-participation training. Goals emphasize participants learning about themselves as learners, how they relate to and can help others, and exploring the dynamics of a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Group Discussion
Rossett, Allison – 1975
The trainer's manual and the 45 associated transparencies are intended for use with small groups of parents of handicapped children. Introductory sections provide information on the evolution of the program, the nature of the program, program goals, utilization of the program, sequencing the visuals, and increasing parent involvement. An article…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Group Discussion, Guidelines
Boy Scouts of America, New Brunswick, NJ. – 1974
The Cub Scout Leader Development Guide is designed to train adult leaders to conduct discussions and set up activities that foster understanding and involvement of the handicapped in den and pack programs. Stressed are development of the handicapped individual's ability and potential as well as similarities between handicapped and nonhandicapped…
Descriptors: Children, Exceptional Child Education, Group Discussion, Handicapped Children
Adams, John C., Jr. – 1970
This paper discusses the effectiveness of small group interaction as opposed to teacher centered instruction. The following procedures are suggested in using this type of class instruction: (1) students are told that the class is not lecture, but one in which they will participate actively; (2) personal data is collected from each student; (3)…
Descriptors: Environment, Evaluation, Group Discussion, Group Dynamics
Louisiana State Dept. of Highways, Baton Rouge. – 1969
The main objective of the training research phase of the maintenance management study was to develop and test training methods suitable for highway maintenance supervisors. Supervisors were trained by one of five different methods (lecture, group discussion, programed instruction, programed workshops, audiovisual instruction). The report documents…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Educational Needs, Group Discussion, Lecture Method
Gutzmer, Willard Ernest – 1969
This study tested the hypothesis that group interaction skill and useful learning occur in a discussion group which is academically structured. A class procedure involving a cognitive map, member skills and roles, and group etiquette was incorporated into a class ("Education and the Contemporary Scene," Fall Quarter, 1968) at the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adult Learning, Behavior Change, Bibliographies
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1973
Providing students with the opportunity to establish their own learning goals is an essential factor in stimulating them to assume learning responsibility. Since the experience may be new for students, careful teacher planning for the first day is necessary and includes such preparations as creating a guideline of objectives, arranging the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English Curriculum, Goal Orientation
