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Download full textCohen, Elizabeth G. – 1980
This report is based on the results of a field experiment in three racially integrated elementary schools. The study reports that groupwork is an effective strategy to produce equal status behavior among racial groups of different socioeconomic background and different levels of academic skills. It also reports that small groups are of critical…
Descriptors: Bias, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Design, Elementary Education
Hayes, William A.; And Others – 1981
This document contains the report of the preliminary analysis of data collected during site visits to Head Start centers conducted in the fall of 1980 as part of the Child And Family Mental Health (CFMH) Evaluation Project. The report is limited to data from two of the three components of the evaluation project -- the process component and the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Family Environment
Cervantes, Robert A.; Jones, Earl – 1977
A communication skills program, initiated in the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, in 1974, as part of the Experimental Schools Program, was conducted as part of a locally designed and implemented effort to improve the academic achievement of its largely Mexican American student body. Coinciding with the initiation of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bilingualism, Classroom Environment, Communication Skills
Evertson, Carolyn M. – 1979
English and mathematics teachers in junior high schools were observed for an average of 20 one-hour periods throughout the school year. The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between the affective behavior of the teacher and the students' academic achievement and attitudes. Anecdotal information based on the classroom…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Class Organization, Classroom Environment
FORD, ROXANA R.; HOYT, CYRIL J. – 1960
TECHNIQUES FOR BUILDING AN ADEQUATE PROFILE TO DESCRIBE TEACHER REQUIREMENTS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS NEEDED FOR SATISFACTORY HOMEMAKING INSTRUCTION WERE STUDIED. WHEN THE PARTICULAR REQUIREMENTS OF A TEACHING POSITION WERE CONSIDERED IN CONJUNCTION WITH SUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A TEACHER CANDIDATE, EXPECTATIONS WERE…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Measurement, Evaluation Methods
CHESLER, MARK A.; SEGAL, PHYLLIS – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO INVESTIGATE THE PROCESS OF SCHOOL INTEGRATION IN THE DEEP SOUTH IN TERMS OF THE CHARACTERISTICS AND INTERRACIAL EXPERIENCES OF A SAMPLE OF DESEGREGATING NEGRO STUDENTS, THE REACTIONS OF THE NEGRO COMMUNITY, AND THE REACTIONS OF THE STUDENTS' WHITE TEACHERS. INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED WITH A SAMPLE OF SECONDARY…
Descriptors: Black Students, Change Agents, Classroom Environment, Control Groups
Nicholson, Tom – 1979
The nearly 40 research studies carried out in New Zealand during the last decade have resulted in some very important ideas. In the area of children and texts, research focused on how children learn from texts, and the resulting data suggest that children can and do teach themselves to read, learning from their mistakes. The complexity of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Classroom Environment, Cultural Influences, Educational Assessment
Ruopp, Richard; And Others – 1980
This final report of the National Day Care Study (NDCS), Volume IV-A, contains three papers that help to set a context for interpreting overall study results. "Research Issues in Day Care, A Focused Review of the Literature" focuses on effects of group care and regulatable characteristics of the day care environment. The second paper,…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Case Studies, Child Development, Classroom Environment
Bradley, Banks; And Others – 1979
Nonverbal teacher behavior is recognized as an important factor in establishing a positive social climate in the classroom. A feedback and analysis instrument is presented focusing on specific nonverbal teacher behaviors. These behaviors--facial expressions, gestures, body movements, and idiosyncratic characteristics--are categorized as either…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Body Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment
Marliave, Leonard S.; Berliner, David C. – 1977
This report discusses the question of the appropriateness of teacher behaviors in relation to both the counting of frequencies of teacher behaviors and the interpretation of the impact of teacher behaviors on student learning. The recent focus, in research on teaching, on the counting of teacher behaviors gives rise to a concern for the meaning as…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Classroom Environment
Trubowitz, Sidney – 1968
This handbook, aimed at helping the new teacher in a ghetto elementary school, exposes the problems facing ghetto teachers and presents detailed practical ways in which successful teachers have dealt with them. Their solutions, which can be as specific as organizing a neat bulletin board to help create a secure atmosphere, are presented in the…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Community, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment
Fowler, William
Proposed is a model for basic preconditions for "the design of effective programs in developmental learning." Such a program should include (1) a continuous psychocognitive diagnosis and assessment of each child; (2) a structured, coherent, sequential approach to content area; (3) a focus on symbolic manipulation and the essentials of a concept;…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Garfunkel, Frank – 1967
Although specific procedures for "participant observation" (PO) vary, it is always based on the principle that while the observer (O) will adopt preconceived structural outlines and dimensional scales in the course of his summary, he--rather than any outlines or scales--is the instrument for inferring data. Applications of modified PO…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Schools, Films
Livesay, Dorothy – A Publication of the Canadian Council of Teachers of English, 1968
In contrast to the kind of leisurely climate that nurtured such creative artists of the past as the Brontes or Fanny Burney, today's adolescents exist in a frantic academic and social whirl in which their only leisure is often "a negative inertia against planned activity." To develop these students' potential as creative individuals and as social…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Contemporary Literature, Creative Development, Creativity
Stevick, Earl W. – 1975
A student's self-image is his most precious possession. Yet this image is constantly threatened in a language class (or anywhere else). Some threats come from the foreignness of the language, others from the power imbalance between student and teacher, others from the student's failure to live up to what he expects of himself. All of these threats…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Educational Psychology, Educational Strategies
