Studied the effectiveness of using checklist-structured observations as a self-improvement technique for modifying teachers' verbal behaviors in the classroom. Concluded that significant changes were found in analyzing pre- and post-treatment audiotape recordings of participating teachers' regular classes. (CC)

A look at one method of analyzing the percentage of time spent in various activities and functions as one example of how teachers and other educational personnel might examine the processes and experiences of the classroom to get some indication of what learning outcomes are being fostered. (Author)

Indicates what happens to man when he suffers sensory deprivation, and underscores color's influence on behavior patterns. (Author)

A view of the high school as ecosystem, with implications for the assessment of behavior in the high school culture." (Author/SP)

Findings support the hypothesis that lateral preference, per se, has little effect on information-processing behaviors. (Authors)

The results show that interferences occupy an impressive amount of consciousness throughout much of childhood. Despite their ubiquity and their apparent impact on the process of awareness and the content of socialization, interferences nevertheless remain ironically in the background of experience. (Author)

Study results indicate that relationship between classroom structure and mental health reported by Glidewell et al. (1966) does not always exist in the nongraded classroom. Factors influencing classroom social structure include: (1) great chronological age difference within some level; (2) great variability of developmental level; and (3) changing…

Before trying to design environments for learning, teachers ought to examine the forces in the social and the individual lives of children that influence the instructional process. (Authors)

In this paper some behavioral indices of attachment are defined and some of the factors that affect its development are considered. (Editor)