This is a report of one of the Center for Educational Research and Innovation's (CERI) pilot studies in international transfer. The report states that the international transfer of learning systems involves a process whereby a learning system, a curriculum project, or an educational practice is introduced and implemented in a cultural and…

The necessity for program modification to meet existing local needs and the current thrust toward competency-based instruction led to this curriculum development project. The intent of the project was to determine the feasibility of incorporating educational innovations within the Business Education Student Teaching Program in order to begin to…

The prime objective of this study was to collect evaluations on instruction performed by student teachers and to compare the evaluations done by their peers with those done by their students. Another objective of this study was to consider changes in the evaluations when the first performance of student teachers was compared with their second…

In performance- or competency-based teacher education, the training objectives are behavior skills a teacher may use to produce or enhance learning. One technique used to improve skill development is modeling. The trainee is shown either a live, taped, or written model and then attempts to emulate the example. The student receives immediate…

This study was designed to observe the effect of two basic variations of a film mediated model on teacher trainees' acquiring the technique of asking questions that require thought before being answered; it attempted to discover whether the subjects could best learn this technique by watching it illustrated by a filmed model, or by engaging in…

This paper holds that the "supervisory" function should be basically one of teaching teachers rather than evaluation of teaching styles, with the consultant on teaching guiding a teacher in the systematic analysis and modification of his teaching performance through a systematic decisionmaking process. In the first half of this paper supervisory…

Feedback by teacher comment, by television playback, and by self-analysis, singly, or together, reduced anxiety in subsequent performance as measured by nonfluencies in speech. Nonfluencies were counted in eight categories: the sounds, "ah,""um," or "uh;" correction; sentence incompletion; repetition; stutter; intruding incoherent sound; tongue…

One Teaching Laboratory (TL) task, a component concerned with several behaviors related to classroom questioning, was developed and tested. Subjects were 86 teacher candidates enrolled in four sections of an introductory teaching course. Two experienced instructors each taught two sections, one section utilizing the TL component and the other not.…

The subject of both papers is microteaching. The purpose of the first study was to assess the effects of focusing on general technical skills versus interpersonal relationship skills in conjunction with microteaching. A total of three training procedures were used: (1) directive lecture (DL), (2) non-directive lecture (NDL), and (3) microteaching…

An experiment was performed to compare the relative effectiveness of two microteaching procedures. In the low-cost treatment, student teachers received training in higher cognitive questioning skills by means of written modeling procedures (Subjects read transcripts of videotape model lessons) and audiotape feedback after each microteaching…

This package of minicourse materials on interaction analysis consists of a handbook, workbook, coordinator's manual, and audio tapes on which classroom episodes have been recorded. The minicourse lasts six weeks, during which time participants are given a brief orientation and spend the first three weeks on five lessons that involve reading…

Self-concepts of teachers and student teachers have been found to predict certain specific teaching behaviors. This study explored these possible relationships in the microteaching setting. Self-Report Inventory and OScAR measures were obtained on 51 students, all secondary teacher candidates. Correctional and ANOVA procedures yielded only a few…

As one phase of a research program on teacher effectiveness, five studies were completed which sought procedures for aiding teachers in the acquisition and expression of hypothetico-deductive verbal structuring through microteaching. Hypothetico-deductive verbal behaviors have been found to be related to desirable pupil outcomes. The evidence…

This article describes a jointly planned and jointly evaluated course offered through Washington State University General Extension. The purpose of the course was to improve instruction in elementary classrooms through use of competency-based training materials (Minicourses) from the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development.…

The Elementary Education Department at East Carolina University, in cooperation with the public schools in the area, has developed a program that involves videotaping approximately 60 student teachers located throughout eastern North Carolina. The taping was made possible through close coordination of university supervisors, public school…