Behavioral observation has become increasingly important in research in developmental and clinical psychology, as well as in program evaluation and instructional research. Several statistical approaches to assessing the dependability of behavioral observation were reviewed. The demand for accurate and efficient paradigms for behavioral observation…

The major purpose of this study was to define the particular ways children's informal interactions in groups are important in their negotiations of playground games within school settings. Data, gathered over a 3-month period on the playgrounds of three elementary schools, consisted of 23 audiotaped records of children's spontaneously organized…

A study examined the manner in which conversants and observers of conversants attribute intent to messages in ongoing information-seeking conversations. College students were used to evolve and test three scenarios, in which evasion was more or less likely, and a system of classifying intention in information seeking conversations. Fifty-four…

A framework for conceptualizing young children's theoretical and task-related strategies in everyday situations is presented in this Head Start final report. The first section of the report discusses the concept of strategies, reviews relevant literature, and presents a theoretical model of the organization of strategic behavior. The second…

Twenty-six elementary grade learning disabled (LD) students were observed over two entire school days to examine the extent to which students in different service delivery levels were provided with varying instructional approaches and opportunities to learn. Several differences were found in instructional approaches: less severely learning…

Designed for use as supplementary instructional material in a cultural anthropology course, this learning module focuses on the purposes and methods of anthropological fieldwork, and provides an overview of the types of research in which anthropologists engage during their field studies. The module begins by discussing the purpose of participant…

The document examines three case studies of intellectually gifted young children and explores competencies for accurately identifying and nurturing the young gifted child in the regular classroom. An introductory section reviews child development principles, notes characteristics of physical development in gifted children, and considers behaviors…

The effectiveness of three basic approaches to sport skills analysis instruction were examined. Ninety-two physical education majors were allocated to four groups and randomly assigned to one of four instructional frameworks: Observational Model (OM), Common Errors (CE), Correct Only (CO), and Control (C). It was hypothesized that the OM group…

The report describes preliminary results of a study investigating the merits of teaching five severely and multiply handicapped preschoolers to take the initiative during social interaction with an adult using signals/actions already in his/her repertoire. Such initiative was theorized as fundamental to the development of communicative,…

Describes an experiment at the University of Hawaii to test the effectiveness of a set of video-taped Japanese language-and-culture teaching lessons. (PP)

Modern software practices call for the active involvement of business people in the software process. Therefore, programming has become an indispensable part of the information systems component of the core curriculum at business schools. In this paper, we present a model-based approach to teaching introduction to programming to general business…

This study investigates the relationship between cooperation and empathy in young children proposed by Levine and Hoffman (1975). The study replicates the Levine and Hoffman study with the following modifications: (1) the naturalistic observation includes both males and females; (2) the sampling of cooperation is based upon the presence or absence…

This document presents an educational research study conducted with 20 pre-service secondary science teachers to assess the effects of training in the systematic analysis of science processes on their use of strategies for teaching data collecting, processing, and interpreting. The results indicate that teaching behavior can be influenced when…

Summarized are results of a validation study of the Observational Checklists for Referral (OCR), developed to assist classroom teachers to identify problems that interfere with learning, to make appropriate referrals to other professionals, and to communicate with parents and professionals. Results of the study involving more than 25 teachers and…

In an attempt to discover exactly how much of the school day was being used for instructional activities, the Austin Independent School District Office of Research and Evaluation undertook an intensive study in the areas of time use. Two hundred twenty-seven students across seven grade levels in 32 schools were randomly selected for observation on…