This document reports the case of 2-year-old girl who demonstrated verbal ability at home but who communicated through nonverbal means in the preschool classroom setting. Baseline data was collected by classroom observation for approximately 32 minutes per day during a 6-day period using an interaction process analysis format. Verbal and nonverbal…

To investigate the effects of interaction analysis feedback on the verbal behavior of student teachers, 40 college seniors enrolled in an elementary teaching program were randomly selected and divided into experimental and control groups. Following training in interaction analysis during an academic quarter, subjects were assigned to eight…

The manual describes procedures and techniques required for the collection of academic survival skill data (data on the classroom behavior of students and the teacher or peer responses to that behavior). The observer is provided with guidelines to assure smooth data collection through proper equipment functioning and the maintenance of good…

Neither teachers nor students have been instructed in the meaning of non-verbal communication. Several assumptions are presented regarding the nature of non-verbal communication. It has been difficult to do research and reporting in this field due to difficulty in data collection, the complexity of human communication, analization difficulty,…

Four major types of interaction of stimulus dimensions based on perceptual research are described: integral, configural, separable, and asymmetric separable. Implications of these interactions for concept and choice processes are discussed. (Author/DEP)

The purposes of this paper are to note specific weaknesses characterizing small group research and to propose suggestions for their solution. Adapted from a speech given at the Second National Conference about the Teaching of Group: Theory and Practice, Temple University, Philadelphia, February 1976. (Author)

Twenty-four infants and their preschool-aged siblings were observed in a laboratory playroom in the presence of their parents. Observations took place when the infants were 12 months old and again 6 months later. (JMB)

Mothers of firstborn infants were videotaped playing with a six-month-old infant with sex-appropriate or cross-sex clothes and names. Toy choice and interaction styles varied with the perceived sex of the child. (BD)

The comparative properties of interacting organizations were examined as determinants of the nature of relations between organizations. Comparative properties of organizational domain were found to be important sets of variables for explaining interdependence, providing a context in which relationships occur, and serving as forces that impel or…

This article defines personal space and distinguishes it from its companion research areas. It then reviews and evaluates current personal space theories and measurement techniques. (JB)

A series of computer-assisted instruction lessions was designed to teach methods students the basic concepts of the Flanders Interaction Analysis System. (JY)

Argues that the questioning and answering interaction provides a setting whereby adults can socialize naive children into communal views of reality. It is suggested, however, that this tradition acts both as a brake and as a springboard to the acquisition of new knowledge. (MS)

Examines the differences between three systems of categorizing verbal communication acts. (MH)

Describes research conducted at a school for deaf children which combined microanalysis of the communicative behaviors of individuals with the sociocultural analysis of groups within one institutional setting. Three factors were found to have most influence on the teacher's communicative behavior during the recorded interactions with the children.…

Reviews the software package, "Interaction Analyses," which makes the observation of communication transactions--commonly described as PROANA5--possible with a microcomputer. (PD)