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Pendergrass, R. A. – 1981
Many staff development efforts are based on correcting teachers' deficiencies or weaknesses. In this staff improvement model, individual teaching styles and patterns of behavior were identified, so that they could be used in a more professional way. In determining teaching styles, it is pointed out that there is a quantitative aspect and that many…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Techniques, Inservice Teacher Education, Learning Processes
Perry, Raymond P.; And Others – 1978
The effects of test performance feedback (contingent, noncontingent, control) and teacher expressiveness (low, high) on student achievement in a simulated college classroom were investigated. Subjects (N=75) wrote an analogies test which provided either contingent or noncontingent performance feedback, after which they viewed a videotaped lecture…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, College Students, Feedback
Plazewski, Joseph G.; Allen, Vernon L. – 1978
Twenty-four college students served as tutors in an examination of the use of paralanguage and nonverbal behavior in presenting a lesson intended for an adult of the tutor's age and for a child. Each subject was tape recorded twice while reading verbatim a lesson from a grade school textbook. Before each taping, the subject was told that the…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis, Cross Age Teaching
Stapleton, James C. – 1979
Since acts of teacher brinkmanship were considered to represent an expression of the teachers' dissatisfaction with the teachers' role, it was conjectured in this study that a relationship should exist between teachers' attitudes toward teacher brinkmanship and the teachers' job satisfaction. Two instruments, the Teacher Job Satisfaction Inventory…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Factor Analysis, Job Satisfaction, Measurement Instruments
Natriello, Gary; Dornbusch, Sanford M. – 1979
A report is made on studies designed to experimentally assess the effects of student ethnicity, sex, achievement record, and behavior record on teacher presentations of standards and teacher warmth. Teachers reported on how they would respond to hypothetical classroom problems presented by students selected at random from their roll books.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Theories, Bias, Ethnic Status
Hyman, Irwin A., Ed; Wise, James H., Ed. – 1979
Virtually all of the essays in this collection reach the conclusion that corporal punishment in the schools is counterproductive. The book is organized into sections presenting historical, psychological, and legal perspectives on this subject, as well as case studies, opinion surveys, and the results of research. Rational alternatives to the use…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Classroom Techniques, Corporal Punishment, Delinquency Causes
Download full textFrankiewicz, R. G.; Thompson, B. – 1979
Analytical strategies for examinining attitudinal data about teacher brinkmanship behavior collected in a semantic-differential format, and delineating the qualitative distinctions among types of brinkmanship behavior are suggested. Teacher brinkmanship is described as behavior which expresses dissatisfaction with facets of the roles teachers are…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis, Factor Analysis, Measurement Techniques
Dow, Ian I.; And Others – 1978
The project reported on here was established to develop an item pool to reflect the universe of content set down in "Education in the Primary and Junior Division" (EPJD), which was adopted by the Ontario Ministry of Education in 1975 to provide a general framework for the justification of curricular decisions; to provide a curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Bullough, Vern; Bullough, Bonnie – 1978
Although homosexuality was considered to be a crime in nineteenth-century England, the subculture of the school system promoted it. For example, in the early nineteenth century schoolboys of all ages were locked up in dormitories at 8:00 p.m. and no master entered the building until the next morning. No-one supervised the boys' activities during…
Descriptors: Behavior, Comparative Education, Corporal Punishment, Discipline Policy
Clements, R. O. – 1980
An ongoing research project, Dimensions of Classroom Instruction (DCI) is described. The primary data source is a study of reading in nine second-grade classrooms using such observation techniques as categorical observation, ethnographic observation, and videotaping. Three major objectives for the project are stated: 1) developing methods of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Content Analysis
Kaufman, Brian J.; Madden, Joseph M. – 1980
A study was conducted to develop a behaviorally anchored rating scale for the evaluation of college teaching that could be used in all academic areas and that would reduce leniency, central tendency, and other rater biases. The Smith-Kendall procedure was modified by having undergraduate subjects generate behavioral examples for specified levels…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, College Faculty, College Instruction, Evaluation Criteria
Franc, Lillian H.; And Others – 1978
This book is designed as a basic text for gaining an understanding of competency-based education. Part one presents an overview of competency-based teacher education focusing in particular on the instructional component. An outline of the general characteristics of competency-based programs is followed by a summary of the social and historical…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Diagnostic Teaching, Individual Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education
Denny, David A. – 1969
The Classroom Creativity Observation Schedule (CCOS) is designed to gather objective information about student and teacher behaviors which relate to students' creative growth. The revised schedule, based on the 1966 version, is composed of eight items designed to assess classroom behavior on the dimensions of: motivational climate; student-student…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Creative Development, Creativity Tests
ALLERHAND, MELVIN E. – 1966
FROM JANUARY 1, 1966 TO APRIL 15, 1966 THE HEADSTART OPERATIONAL FIELD ANALYSIS IN CLEVELAND, OHIO PERFORMED 5 STUDIES. (1) SAMPLES OF HEADSTART (HS) AND NON-HEADSTART (NHS) CHILDREN WERE COMPARED AFTER 6 MONTHS OF KINDERGARTEN. FOUR OBSERVATIONS WERE MADE, USING 2 TEACHER RATINGS AND 2 OBSERVER RATINGS. THERE WERE 191 CHILDREN AT THE TIME OF THE…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Analysis of Variance, Case Studies, Concept Formation
FAHEY, GEORGE L. – 1967
THE PROBLEM OF ACHIEVING DELINEATION OF COLLEGE TEACHING BEHAVIOR IS INVESTIGATED. THE STUDY HAS FOUR OBJECTIVES--(1) TESTING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL SCALE AS A MEANS OF DESCRIBING INSTRUCTOR BEHAVIORS AS OBSERVED BY STUDENTS, (2) TESTING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CERTAIN SINGLE ADJECTIVES PURPORTED TO BE DESCRIPTIVE OF INSTRUCTOR…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, College Faculty, College Students, Humanities
