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Almasy, Rudolph Paul – 1980
Four assumptions about factors leading to writing improvement may be related to instruction in supplemental writing laboratories (or "writing labs") that use tutorial conferencing to serve students needing help with classroom assignments or specific skills. The assumptions and their relation to writing lab instruction are as follows: (1)…
Descriptors: Feedback, Higher Education, Individual Instruction, Interaction
Garcia, Maryellen – 1980
The study analyzes communicative interaction in an informal social setting, investigating how the social task of leave-taking organizes the interaction into a cohesive discourse. Data is taken from the last five minutes of a half-hour tape recording made during a Mexican-American family's Christmas gathering, when one group of guests prepares for…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Traits, Discourse Analysis
Gregory, Lynn – 1979
The paper describes a methodology to aid educators as they evaluate educational programs aimed at changing students' attitudes, values, and/or behavior. The major objective of the evaluation method is to analyze the content and/or process that underlies behavior in a given situation. In addition, the paper relates how this method was used to…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Anthropology, Attitude Change, Behavioral Science Research
ANDERSEN, DAN W.; AND OTHERS – 1963
THIS PAPER DESCRIBES THE DESIGN AND INSTRUMENTATION OF A STUDY TO DETERMINE (A) THE INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACHES IN TEACHER EDUCATION UPON THE ATTITUDES, PERCEPTIONS AND BEHAVIOR OF STUDENT TEACHERS, AND (B) THE INFLUENCE OF THESE TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS UPON "MENTAL HEALTH" IN THE CLASSROOM. THREE VARIABLES WERE IDENTIFIED--(1)…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Elementary Education, Interaction Process Analysis, Interviews
GENTRY, HAROLD W.; KENNEY, JAMES B. – 1967
THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE IN 221 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND (1) CLASSIFICATION OF THE SCHOOL BY ITS URBAN, SUBURBAN, OR RURAL LOCATION, (2) SCHOOL SIZE AS MEASURED BY NUMBER OF PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEMBERS, AND (3) ECONOMIC LEVEL OF THE COMMUNITY SERVED BY THE SCHOOL. AN ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE…
Descriptors: Economic Status, Elementary Schools, Interaction, Leadership Styles
OHNMACHT, FRED W. – 1967
THREE STUDIES EXPLORED THE RELATIONSHIP OF TWO COGNITIVE STYLES (FIELD DEPENDENCE AND DOGMATISM) TO ANTICIPATED AND ACTUAL TEACHING STYLE. FACTOR ANALYSIS OF SCORES ON A BATTERY OF TESTS (TEACHER CHARACTERISTIC SCHEDULE AND MEASURES OF CLOSED-MINDEDNESS AND FIELD INDEPENDENCE) ADMINISTERED IN THE FIRST STUDY TO 57 MALE SECONDARY EDUCATION MAJORS…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cognitive Tests, Dogmatism, Interaction Process Analysis
Sagar, H. Andrew; Schofield, Janet Ward – 1980
The classroom behavior of 92 black and white sixth graders was observed in a desegregated urban school. Observations were made once a week during a full semester. The sex and race of each student observed and of his or her interactants were noted. Observers also coded characteristics of observed students' interactive behaviors: the tone (positive,…
Descriptors: Blacks, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Grade 6
Draper, James; Keating, Donald – 1978
A questionnaire was sent to part-time instructors of adults in four selected areas of Ontario to determine the kinds of adjustments made and the resources used in the move from teaching children and youth to teaching adults. The study reveals that continuing education programs are characterized by informality, fewer discipline problems, and a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Continuing Education, Foreign Countries
Peck, Robert F.; And Others – 1977
Effects were studied of 12 teacher and 11 student characteristics (including SES and ethnicity) on 7 student outcomes--cognitive, affective and coping skills. Fifty-three sixth grade teachers and 1,190 Black, Chicano and Anglo students participated. A series of covariance and regression analyses showed significant curvilinear and interaction…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Interaction Process Analysis, Racial Differences
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Feldman, Carol; Wertsch, Jim – 1972
This research study delineates some of the factors in classroom communication involved in the process of classroom interaction in the elementary schools and explores the psychological relevance of some matters brought up in ordinary language philosophy and modern linguistics. Samples of classroom speech were collected from twenty grade school…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Code Switching (Language), Elementary Education
Wilkinson, Louise Cherry; And Others – 1979
A pilot study was conducted as part of a larger sociological investigation of small group interaction. Specifically, the study dealt with communication in three first-grade advanced reading groups, each composed of 15 children, and focused on two types of requests: those for action and those for information. Student interactions were audio- and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Kluwin, Thomas N. – 1979
Methods used in studies of the classroom language of the English teacher are described in this paper and some results of the research are reported. The paper first describes three methods traditionally employed in the description of the language of the English classroom--live observation systems, coding systems based on transcripts, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Communication, Educational Research, English Instruction
Carney, John J., Jr. – 1979
Children need to develop skills enabling them to respond to television efficiently, analytically, and with discrimination. Removing children's advertising from television will not help them to understand the nature of the appeals used by the advertiser, who will find other means of reaching children; and advocating no violence on television brings…
Descriptors: Audiences, Change Agents, Children, Childrens Television
Reid, Leonard N.; Frazer, Charles F. – 1979
After seven judges had ranked 30 families for observed parental consumer teaching orientations and family television viewing habits, one family was selected for each cell of a 3X3 factorial design for age of children (3 to 5, 6 to 8, 9 to 11) and family consumer teaching orientation (high, moderate, low). These nine family groups were observed…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Communication Research, Consumer Education
Wadham, Rex A. – 1979
The Timed Interval Categorical Observation Recorder (TICOR), a portable, battery powered microcomputer designed to automate the collection of sequential and simultaneous behavioral observations and their associated durations, was developed to overcome problems in gathering subtle interaction analysis data characterized by sequential flow of…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Computer Programs, Computers, Data Analysis
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