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Anderson, Richard C.; Armbruster, Bonnie B. – 1990
Maxims derived from recent theory in learning and instruction and from reflection on excellent practice can be applied to teacher education, not only to improve the training of prospective teachers, but also to improve their ability to teach others. Especially useful are examples from Reading Recovery, a successful literacy training program. Some…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Guidelines, Higher Education, Modeling (Psychology)

Shaw, Nancy R. – Nursing Outlook, 1974
The program in the form of a mothers' group had three goals: (1) to increase parental knowledge of child development and methods of child rearing, (2) provide access to more social contacts and role models, and (3) provide a supportive atmosphere to explore their feelings about themselves as parents. (MW)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Group Instruction, Mother Attitudes

Feldman, Robert S.; And Others – 1977
Subjects were 61 males and females who observed one of four combinations of male and female model performance on an anagram task: (1) male success-female success, (2) male success-female failure, (3) male failure-female success, and (4) male failure-female failure. Subjects' expectations of their own future success and amount of ability relating…
Descriptors: Expectation, Failure, Females, Identification (Psychology)

Beck, Carlton E.; Uhlig, George E. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1975
If the major findings of a study by Dowling and Frantz should prove generalizable, several important questions are raised. These questions, and the potential dangers they suggest, are discussed in terms of counselor education, the power of school administrators and counselors, and counselor ethics and treatment techniques. (Author)
Descriptors: Counseling, Counseling Objectives, Counselor Educators, Counselor Training

Garrett, Candace S.; Cunningham, Donald J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Results indicate that reward and ignore conditions were not different but both yielded higher imitative scores than the punishment condition; same-sex models yielded higher imitation scores than opposite-sex models; lowest imitation scores were obtained by children exposed to a male experimenter and a female model. (Author/BJG)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Elementary Education, Identification (Psychology), Imitation
Surlin, Stuart H.; Maloof, Mary C. – 1977
This paper discusses the wide appeal, and the effect on the viewing audience, of traditional television soap operas. It reports on a comparison of role interactions, topics discussed by the characters, and types of topics and problems presented on the television program "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" with those presented on two traditional…
Descriptors: Audiences, Characterization, Content Analysis, Interpersonal Relationship
Leifer, Aimee Dorr – 1975
This study investigated the influence of structured children's television programming on prosocial behavior. Subjects were 53 children ages 4-6, from two day care centers. Nine videotapes were produced (three for each of three experimental conditions) differing in their presentation of socially-valued behavior, socially-devalued behavior,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Television, Observational Learning, Preschool Children
Zimmerman, Barry J. – 1972
This paper is a proposal for developing a manual that provides preschool teachers with prescriptive guidelines for teaching verbal and conceptual skills with modeling. Several studies are cited to indicate the power and versatality of observational and learning (modeling) procedures in promoting the acquisition, generalization, and retention of a…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Curriculum Design, Decision Making, Early Childhood Education
Stevenson, Harold W. – 1972
This review of literature on children's learning focuses on the following seven subject areas: (1) Infant learning, particularly studies of conditioning and individual differences in infants, (2) New perspectives on Piaget, reviewing studies where conservation and transitive inferences have been taught to young children, (3) Language and…
Descriptors: Attention, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Development, Infants
Collins, W. Andrew; Berndt, Thomas J. – 1973
This report reviews evidence concerned with age-related aspects of social perception processes and their effects on overt behavior. Focus is on the variability among children in comprehension and evaluation of action, motives, and consequences of modeled behavior. Findings indicated that comprehension of acts in terms of motives and correctness of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Behavior Development, Cognitive Processes
Zimmerman, Barry J. – 1973
A model's influence on the creative behavior of 120 fifth-grade children was studied in four variations. Separate groups observed a model who was either high or low in the fluency or flexibility creativity dimensions. Multivariate procedures were used to assess treatment effects upon children's fluency and flexibility measures collected on…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Behavior Change, Creative Expression, Creativity
Rand, Helene Y. – Day Care and Early Education, 1976
Discusses some advantages of multi-age grouping in group child care centers. (ED)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Lamberts, Frances; Ysseldyke, James E. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1978
A study of oral language instruction with 19 trainable mentally handicapped students (mean age 15.3 years) was undertaken. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction

Yates, Gregory C. R.; Yates, Shirley M. – Australian Journal of Education, 1978
Reviews research on imitative learning, or social modeling, from the perspective of social learning theory that emphasizes the human capacity for higher-order rule learning to occur through modeling exposure. Educational implications are discussed, particularly through research into vicarious reinforcement, teacher modeling, and peer modeling.…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Learning Processes, Modeling (Psychology), Observational Learning
Algozzine, Bob; Mercer, Cecil D. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1977
An investigation was conducted to review observational learning studies with retarded children and to derive teaching/treatment implications. (SBH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation