THIS MANUAL DESCRIBES MEASURES USED IN "THE COGNITIVE ENVIRONMENTS OF URBAN PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN" PROJECT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. THE SAMPLE FOR THE STUDY CONSISTED OF 163 NEGRO MOTHER-CHILD PAIRS SELECTED FROM 3 SOCIOECONOMIC CLASSES BASED ON THE FATHER'S OCCUPATION AND THE PARENTS' EDUCATION. A FOURTH GROUP INCLUDED FATHER-ABSENT…

Classroom simulation and interaction analysis are 2 new approaches to preservice observation and practicum training which involve maximum student participation in the learning experience. A 2-factor design was used to investigate the interacting effects of these 2 types of training; 92 student teachers in randomized groups received interaction…

Educational Testing Service is involved in a measurement approach to research in teaching with a goal of developing procedures for obtaining objective quantitive descriptions of teacher behavior, in terms of a minimum number of dimensions, on the basis of direct observation. The Observation Schedule and Record (OScAR), a card which contains a list…

This paper offers a concept for overcoming some problems in classroom observation research stated in the following three propositions: (1) there is a logical gap between available means for describing teacher behavior using observation schemes and the larger purposes of education; (2) classroom observation instruments have neglected descriptions…

This report provides descriptive statistical information from Phase III-B of the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study. Within the sample of second and fifth grade teachers in classrooms in public schools in California, approximately six students were identified as target students to be studied during the school year. These students were observed…

The consistency of teaching behavior of 28 sixth-grade teachers over a period of two years was studied and evaluated. Trained observers rated teachers with Ryans' Classroom Observation Record (20 scales that reproduced Ryans' factors of teacher behaviors). Many of the same teachers were observed again in the following year by a team of half-old,…

This paper is concerned with the research and development work that is being undertaken in applying interaction analysis to the training of university lectures. Interaction analysis or the systematic observation of lecturing is a technique that has been used in conjunction with microteaching to facilitate the trainer's job in shaping the teaching…

One of a series of reports from a larger investigation entitled "The Student Attribute Study," the present paper discusses classroom observation data collected in this study concerning the interactions between teachers and students who had been previously identified as objects of teacher attachment, concern, or rejection. The Student…

The evolution of educational evaluation has been significantly influenced by the assumptions and procedures of educational research which, in turn, aspires to make educational practice scientific. The concept of education connoisseurship and education criticism is posited upon a different set of techniques. Connoisseurship is an appreciative art…

This study was designed to see whether a model program utilizing alternative disciplinary actions as a means to improve the discipline problems at Herbert Marcus Elementary School would be successful in (1) reducing the number of student misbehaviors, (2) providing more appropriate learning situations for the needs of individual students, and (3)…

The guidelines used by the Bowling Green State University, Ohio, speech communication department to assess graduate assistants' teaching skills are outlined in this paper. Visitations by observers, in conjunction with introductory sessions, weekly staff meetings, and teacher's manuals, can provide follow-up feedback regarding the implementation of…

In 1973-74 Tennessee Technological University developed and implemented a Teacher Evaluation Model for systematic data gathering and evaluating its programs in teacher education. This report presents the findings of the third year of the application of the model. The purposes of this study are: (1) to provide information for faculty and…

This collection contains Child Development Associate (CDA) training materials from the Fall River, Massachusetts, training program, including a booklet for trainers, a chapter on curriculum planning, and three modules covering the areas of preschool environment, daily schedule and transitions, and observations of children. Each module contains a…

A self-instructional book covers ten steps toward development of a behavior observation system. Units describe how to interpret graphs, convert information from table to graph form, put collected data into a table, compute the reliability of observational data, make observations with four recording methods, construct an observational system,…

This paper describes data collection procedures for the part of the New York City Infant Day Care Study concerned with day care environment and caregiver-child interaction. This study is a 5-year, longitudinal investigation in which infants in group and family day care programs and infants reared at home are compared. Study data will be collected…