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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles deal with the following topics: factors affecting group decisions regarding attributions of responsibility; a model of message-attitude-behavior relations; effects of the communicative process on perceived source…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Karweit, Nancy – 1976
This paper explores how organizational features of high schools influence the informal interaction of students attending them. Size of school, composition of the student body, and differentiation into curriculum and grade levels are factors which affect the patterns of informal interaction among students. The informal social arrangement of…
Descriptors: Friendship, Group Membership, Group Structure, Interaction Process Analysis
Bean, John P. – 1979
The determinants of student attrition in institutions of higher education were investigated. A causal model was developed which synthesized research findings on turnover in work organizations and on student attrition. Questionnaires were distributed to university freshmen (N=1171). The data was analyzed using multiple regression and path analysis.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Attendance, College Students, Critical Path Method
Schroeder, Carolyn S. – 1978
The role of the psychologist in the implementation of the six key principles of Public Law 94-142, The Education for All Handicapped Children's Act is one of an advocate and consultant relationship to the school. A strategy for consulting with non-handicapped peers of handicapped children at the junior high school level was investigated with a…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Child Advocacy, Consultation Programs, Counselor Role
Hillman, Stephen B.; Elliot, Brownlee – 1978
As part of the desegregation plan in the City of Detroit, teachers in recently desegregated schools participated in an inservice program to provide for equal instructional opportunity in the involved classrooms. Teacher-student interaction data were collected in each teacher's classroom using the Brophy-Good System. These data were transformed to…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education
Hunter, John E.; Boster, Franklin J. – 1978
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a model of the psychological processes that take place when a persuader decides to use or not to use a given persuasive message. The assumption is made that if the perceived emotional impact of a message is more positive than an ethical threshold (which varies from person to person), the persuader will use…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes, Communication Research
Schroeder, Anthony B. – 1979
An analysis of interpersonal communication research supports the existence of the notion "communicative style," the method or manner by which an individual interacts with others. Scholars concerned with interpersonal behavior acknowledge that individuals develop habitual styles of interactive behavior that tend to produce optimal…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Style, Communication Research, Higher Education
HESS, ROBERT D.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THIS MANUAL DESCRIBES MEASURES USED IN "THE COGNITIVE ENVIRONMENTS OF URBAN PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN" PROJECT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. THE SAMPLE FOR THE STUDY CONSISTED OF 163 NEGRO MOTHER-CHILD PAIRS SELECTED FROM 3 SOCIOECONOMIC CLASSES BASED ON THE FATHER'S OCCUPATION AND THE PARENTS' EDUCATION. A FOURTH GROUP INCLUDED FATHER-ABSENT…
Descriptors: Black Mothers, Classification, Cognitive Development, Interaction Process Analysis
Ramsey, Gregor A.; Howe, Robert W. – Sci Teacher, 1969
This is the second of a two-part review of instructional procedures in secondary school science. Analyzed are research studies in the field mainly over the period 1960-67. Studies were reviewed under the following headings: team teaching, programed instruction, audiovisual aids, laboratory procedures, extra classroom activities and field…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Chemistry, General Science, Individual Instruction
Johnston, Donald P. – 1968
A stratified random sample of 84 student teachers in secondary school academic subject areas was distributed into four treatment groups according to a trichotomization of their scores on the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI). Each student teacher taught two 20-minute lessons with the same content to different classes of five pupils. On…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns
Bondi, Joseph C. – 1969
A study was conducted to investigate the effects of interaction analysis feedback on the verbal behavior of student teachers. Forty randomly selected senior elementary education students at the University of South Florida were trained in interaction analysis, and each was observed for eight weekly 15-minute periods during student teaching. Data,…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Classroom Communication, Educational Experiments, Feedback
French, Russell L.; Galloway, Charles M. – 1968
Classroom interaction may be described in terms of communication events, i.e., sequences of teacher-pupil communicative behaviors separated from preceding and succeeding sequences of behaviors by natural boundaries. Communication events may be institutional (related to managing the classroom and meeting the expectations of the institution), task…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Research, Group Dynamics
Sandefur, J.T.; And Others – 1967
As an outgrowth of concern with whether or not the present content of teacher education affects the behavior of teachers in the classroom, a study was designed to compare the behavior of 52 secondary education students in a conventional program with that of 62 students in an experimental program. The experimental program coordinated laboratory…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Directed Reading Activity, Educational Experiments, Films
McQuigg, R. Bruce – 1968
This last volume of a 4-part report reviews the secondary division program of the acroclinical semester, an accelerated experience designed to correlate methods instruction (including theory) as closely as possible with student teaching (the practice). Each of 15 sections deals with 1 program element; most sections include discussion of the…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Clinical Experience, Course Content, Curriculum Problems
Keefer, Constance H.; And Others – 1977
This paper describes a cross cultural study of face to face interactions between American and Gusii mothers and their infants. Observations of the Gusii people of Western Kenya suggest that the direct expression of intense affect is de-emphasized through an avoidance of direct face to face interactions. The present study investigated (1) how and…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Rating Scales, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
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