This paper discusses insights arising from a recent doctoral study in a New Zealand early childhood setting. I was interested in how young children learn to be part of the group and drawing on a socio-cultural framework carried out a qualitative case study to investigate the enculturation of young children into childcare settings. The particular…

This article describes a new construct for coding the social communicative performance of school-aged children as they interact with peers and teachers in the classroom. The Social Communication Coding System (SCCS) allows clinicians a way of describing how children actually spend their time during the school day by observing ongoing behaviors…

Recently, there is a growing interest in the automatic analysis of learner activity in web-based learning environments. The approach and system SIAM (System for Interaction Analysis by Machine learning) presented in this article aims at helping to establish a basis for the automatic analysis of interaction data by developing a data logging and…

In presenting classification problems to a random sampling of fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students, the author was able to devise a method of using interaction analysis as a tool to measure student behavior patterns in the outdoors. Limitations included the inability to categorize non-verbal behavior. (MA)

Haley (1963) described the counseling relationship in terms of the patterns of communicative behavior exchanged by the interactants. To investigate Haley's assertion that successful counseling is characterized by the counselor's control of the definition of the counseling relationship as a complementary relationship in which the counselor is in a…

Any man-environment system is made up of subsets of the sets man, nature, artifacts, and symbols, and the set of interactions among these elements. (Author)

Compares the effectiveness of videotapes, audiotapes, and Flanders Interaction Analysis, in microteaching. (JF)

Much of this annual report of the Scottish Council for Research in Education consists of lists and reports, including names of officials, budget, titles of dissertations of Scottish university students, and titles of published articles relating to the Council. Two of these articles are included in the report. One describes methods of observing…

This study investigated the effects of mother's distance and visual field on some attachment behaviors of children 21-36 months old. Subjects were 20 male and 20 female children, half of each sex being reared primarily at home and half primarily in day care. Each child was observed with his mother in an experimental setting for a total of 16…

The Hill Interaction Matrix-G (HIM-G), a 72 item questionnaire, is a shorter method for the analysis of verbal interaction in small groups. Intended as a substitute for the more precise Hill Interaction Matrix Rating System (HIM-SS) this version can be rated within twenty minutes after observation of the group. A Fortran computer scoring program…

If American education is to turn out the independent and creative type of person we say we want, then the needs of the individual child must be identified, and teachers must be trained to perceive these needs. Teacher education programs have begun to train teachers in the use of individualized instruction methods, but there is a great need for…

This manual presents the rationale and coding system for the study of dyadic interaction between teachers and children in classrooms. The introduction notes major differences between this system and others in common use: 1) it is not a universal system that attempts to code all classroom behavior, and 2) the teacher's interactions in his class are…

An experiment was conducted to determine the efficacy of a self-instructional inservice program in Flanders' system of interaction analysis. Subjects (teachers in nine elementary schools in Tennessee) audiotaped three 20-minute lessons in either mathematics or social studies each week of the 18-week study. The instructional treatment, a one-hour…

This manual is a programmed developmental sequence to be used in providing inservice and preservice training for professional educators--teachers, supervisors, and administrators--in the techniques of interaction analysis. It is designed to implement a 30-40 hour program, which would ideally be enacted in three sessions over a span of several…