A preschool program involving parents in such activities as classroom observation, teaching, and group discussions with other parents is described in this paper. The program's goals are to provide healthy growth and development opportunities for children and to strengthen parenting skills. Parents are taught about development and behavior patterns…

An ethnographic approach was used to examine the development, over 14 months, of a design curriculum for third-year architecture students. Issues concerning methods of curriculum inquiry and the formation of theory from case study data are also addressed. The major conclusion of this case study is that the teacher was the curriculum. He is…

This career exploration model gives a framework for use by schools in planning, developing, and implementing a career exploration program for grades 7 and 8 within a complete career education program. The recommended plan for use of the two-phase model is to use phase 1 at the seventh-grade level and phase 2 at the eighth-grade level. The major…

A two year longitudinal cross-sectional project investigated the determinants of students' decisions to enroll in advanced mathematics courses, with particular attention to the determinants of sex-differentiated course participation. This study attempted to: (1) plot developmental shifts on psychological variables related to achievement attitudes;…

The magnitude of simple and multiple correlations between the Teacher Performance Assessment Instruments (TPAI) ratings of elementary student teachers and achievement gains of their pupils is assessed, as well as the impact of certain methodological and contextual factors on the validity coefficients generated. The TPAI is a set of four…

FOR THIS CASE STUDY, 80 PERCENT (319) OF THE FACULTY AT THE URBAN UNIVERSITY RETURNED A QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY VALUES, PERSONALITY TRAITS, AND ATTITUDES TOWARD INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION (ITV) AND 14 TEACHING METHODS. AN HYPOTHESIS DERIVED FOR FUTURE RESEARCH WAS--ACCEPTANCE OF INNOVATION VARIES DIRECTLY WITH THE PERSONALITY ATTRIBUTE…

The improvement of student engaged time leads to instructional improvement. Major steps for improving instruction by improving student engaged time are information collection, comparison of information and identification of strategies, selection and preparation of strategies, and implementation and re-evaluation. This leader's guide covers the…

The second of a two-volume report on motor vehicle driving by handicapped persons presents an approach to the evaluation of drivers with 20 specific )edical problems. The guide provides information on symptoms, treatment, guidelines for determining risk levels (risk increasing and risk moderating factors), questions for the applicant, and…

A comprehensive guide for observers using the Pupil Activities Record--Revised (PAR-R), this manual covers procedures followed in systematic observation of a student's classroom activities for the period of one instructional day. The manual provides general information about the purpose and design of the PAR and explains the revisions, which were…

The objective of this study was to determine whether there were verbal interaction differences between junior/community college and university settings and among disciplines. Theoretically, student achievement and student attitudes are influenced by the types of verbal interactions taking place within classrooms. Forty-eight different classes…

This document investigates the Wayne State Experimental Project in the Region 9 Teaching Center of Detroit (WEXPO-9) which is designed as a cooperative program to better prepare inner city teachers by introducing them to student teaching (in the inner city) in their junior year; to assess the influence of preparation in concepts of teaching and…

The Miniaturized Interaction Analysis System (Mini-TIA) was developed to permit improved analysis of classroom communication in conjunction with video taping. Each of seven verbal event categories is subdivided into two categories according to the nature of the nonverbal events paralleling them. Integrated into the system are (1) defined verbal…

This study was concerned with the present and future status of company training for clerical workers among firms in the Greater Boston area, descriptions of formal training programs that these companies provide for their clerical workers and ones conducted by out-of-company agencies. Questionnaires were used to secure information about present and…

Certain classroom behaviors, indicants of teacher effectiveness, were identified by a group of classroom teachers. These behavioral indicators provided the basis for a performance test--in the form of an observation schedule--which can be used for certifying candidates as competent to teach school. Five standardized observation instruments were…

This paper suggests that one way of understanding the role of feedback in a classroom situation is to describe the types of feedback which are communicated in a range of settings and to study the effect the feedback seems to have. Systematic descriptions are provided of the feedback communicated by teachers in ESOL classes, by children playing, by…