This study examined the relationship between students' and instructors' views of the promotion of feedback and the students' perception of the effectiveness of the instructor as a teacher. The subjects of the study were faculty members and students from the College of Nursing at the University of North Dakota. Data were collected through a…

A student-generated, self-anchoring instrument should provide a teacher with more and different information than do conventional techniques. Such an instrument was developed by students in four sections of a basic course in speech communication. Students were asked to generate statements that described teacher behaviors adapted to their needs and…

The entries in this annotated bibliography center on the effects of teachers' attitudes and behaviors towards black elementary students in integrated classrooms. The first section cites research on interactions in the classroom: specifically, self-fulfilling teacher expectations and behaviors communicating such expectations. Entries in the second…

A study was conducted to identify teacher behaviors that college students deem unethical, measure the strength of student attitudes toward the 20 most frequently mentioned behaviors, and measure the degree to which the students have personally found the 20 behaviors to be problems. The first part of the study elicited examples of unethical teacher…

The relationships between certain parallel aspects of the teaching and learning styles of 60 student teachers of English as a second language were examined in the context of the general assumption that an individual's teaching and learning styles are closely related. The Canfield Learning Styles Inventory and Instructional Styles Inventory were…

Assuming that teacher effectiveness and nonverbal communication are interrelated, an analysis of nonverbal communication and teacher assessment of nonverbal action is appropriate. A review of the literature indicates that nonverbal behaviors may be examined by the impressionistic and the quantitative methods. Each of these methods generates…

The study, which investigated the influence of teacher behavior on the social participation of 4-year-old preschool children, was conducted in three phases: pretraining, training, and post-training. In the first phase, four preschool teachers were observed for approximately 30 minutes, 3 days a week, for a 2 week period during free play sessions…

This handbook, developed for use in a microteaching laboratory, presents information on: (l) the history of microteaching; (2) research supporting microteaching; (3) advantages of microteaching; (4) teaching skill clusters (response repertoire, questioning skills, creating student involvement, increasing student participation, presentation…

This 292-item bibliography lists materials on teacher effectiveness research published from 1978 to early 1984. Reference to some earlier works of significance is also included. Teacher effectiveness research is here defined to include principally studies conducted in the presage-context-process-product tradition in an attempt to determine…

A step-by-step outline of recommended procedures is presented for a performance based evaluation system for teachers in Missouri. Four general performance areas form the basis for the system: (1) instructional processes; (2) classroom management; (3) interpersonal relationships; and (4) professional responsibilities. Nineteen specific,…

Notes are presented on classroom organization, discipline, motivation, and teacher concern for use with instructional radio. Attributes of a regular classroom and a good radio classroom are compared, including teacher/radio positioning, materials organization and presentation, the use of sound and silence, cueing and voice use, demonstrations,…

Reports an investigation designed to determine if curriculum adoption in earth science resulted in a change in teaching behavior. (PEB)

Described is a concerns-based elementary science methods course, the design of which has been influenced by work done by Fuller on the concerns of teachers. The three phases of the Teacher Concerns Model are "Concerns About Self,""Concerns About Teaching Tasks," and "Concerns About Impact on Children." This model and…

Transactional Analysis (TA) of teaching and learning process reveals actions and reactions triggered from the ego-states of teacher and learner. The teacher has to switch between these ego-states to achieve effective communication and learning results. Ego-states of teacher and learners are worth studying in the context of e-learning, as the…

Elementary school counselling is in need of a new image. The elementary school counsellor should have a thorough understanding of the many problem areas in which he will be involved. Many aspects of school functioning, teacher behavior as it pertains to classroom management, and individual psychology are related to the entire question of…