The Washington Principal Evaluation Inventory provides a measure of principal effectiveness. Not only does the inventory yield a total measure of overall principal effectiveness, but also meaningful scores for each of seven dimensions of administrator behavior. The inventory consists of 64 statements of principal behavior on which teachers and…

This report describes a pilot study in the use of video tape as a recording and reporting device for a child's responses in a learning situation. It was believed that video tape could be used as an improved means of home-school communication. Nineteen 5-year-old subjects in groups of six were videotaped for 12-minute segments in actual classroom…

Behavioral Expectation Scales developed by Smith and Kendall were evaluated. Results indicated slight interrater reliability between Head Nurses and Supervisors, moderate dependence among five performance dimensions, and correlation between two scales and tenure. Results are discussed in terms of procedural problems, critical incident problems,…

The Verbal Reaction Behavior Log (VRBL) is an instrument used for identification of teacher and pupil verbal behavior. The purposes for its use are (a) an increase in pupil-teacher interaction, (b) an enhancement of indirect and pupil-centered instruction, (c) focus of attention on the logic of classroom discourse, and (d) increased use of…

This study represents an effort to develop an observational instrument to assess a correctional officer's behavior, and to evaluate officer training programs. A list of 73 inmate behaviors to which the officer might respond was assembled. The most relevant, significant, and most often occurring inmate behaviors were selected. Six judges with…

The goals of early childhood educators are commonly expressed in terms of social and intellectual development. The Coping Ananlysis Schedule for Education Settings (CASES) is designed to measure social development. Its use in programs designed to increase social skills and coping ability in the school environment is described. The presentation…

An instrument, developed in 1965 by Arthur Blumberg and Edmund Amidon to measure teacher perceptions of supervisory conferences, has presented problems of reliability to researchers. The problem has stemmed from the lack of a valid and reliable scoring method for the instrument. The instrument was administered to 31 in-service teachers, Grades…

Studies of social comparison choice have utilized a paradigm which fails to distinguish comparison motives from more general information search motives. In the present study subjects were either exposed to the standard social comparison manipulation or asked to determine the distribution of a set of unknown random variables arranged in rank order.…

Reviewed is the California Preschool Social Competency Scale intended for use with children 2 years 6 months through 5 years 6 months of age. (DB)

Describes an instrument developed to quantitatively evaluate the participation levels of students on outdoor education activities. From photographs taken at two minute intervals, students are assigned values for their observed behaviors. The correlations of values assigned by several judges are shown. (CP)

Thirty-six elementary school teachers in a predominantly lower and working class urban school system were selected in order to define creativity in terms of specific observable behaviors believed by teachers of the disadvantaged to indicate creativity in the classroom setting. (BD)

The Disruptive Behavior Scale, a 26-item behavioral checklist, provides an objective measure of socially unacceptable public secondary school behavior and may prove to be of value in determining public school exit and reentry plans for disruptive adolescents. This study developed the DBS from the Adaptive Behavior Scale--Part 11 (ABS-11).…

Discusses a study designed to investigate people's conceptions of what believability should entail and how these conceptions differ over topic-situations. (MH)

The author presents a synthesized typology of leader behavior. The behavior typology is built on the dimensions of task orientation, relationship orientation, and leader effectiveness. There are eight resulting leader types: more effective-high relationship orientation-high task orientation to less effective-low relationship orientation-low task…

Two instruments are presented: a modified Bogardus Social Distance Scale measures the behavioral aspect; factor I of a semantic differential test measures the affective aspect; factors II and III measure the cognitive. Development of the instruments is described, and suggestions are given for administering and scoring. (Author/KM)