Presented is an evaluation of the effect of the three most commonly used question classification systems on preservice teachers' ability to classify questions and on their attitude toward questioning. Thirty elementary science teachers were randomly assigned to one of three treatment levels. Each treatment level consisted of self-instructional…

This report examines how the making of inferences plays a role in the comprehension of narratives. The report poses and discusses seven questions: What are inferences? What functions do they perform? What is required to make inferences? What processes are involved? What kinds of inferences are there? How can readers' inferences be assessed? Can…

Methods and approaches used by effective teachers are examined, and the set of goals and subgoals that guide these teachers, the set of specific strategies that they use to generate cases, questions, and comments for their pupils, and the control structure that they use to allocate their time between different goals are specified. The theory…

A four-part heuristic model seeks to enhance teacher and student-writer awareness of the significance of the self as writer. The questions in the heuristic examine the relationships between the self and the self as writer, between the self and the subject matter, between the self and the audience, and between the self and the form of the…

TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF THREE MODELING PROCEDURES FOR MODIFYING TEACHER BEHAVIOR (APPLIED, ILLUSTRATIVELY, TO HIGHER-ORDER QUESTIONING BEHAVIOR), VIDEOTAPES WERE MADE OF A SERIES OF FOUR MICROTEACHING SESSIONS REPRESENTING IN A 2 X 2 X 2 FACTORIAL DESIGN (N 103) THAT FURNISHED EIGHT EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS, (1) SYMBOLIC VERSUS…

A MEASURE OF SELF-CONCEPT, CONSISTING OF A SERIES OF THREE TESTS, WAS RECOMMENDED TO AID THE STUDY OF ADOLESCENCE IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL AND TO PROVIDE THE ADOLESCENT WITH A KNOWLEDGE OF SELF-CONCEPT THAT COULD HELP IN DECISION MAKING, PERCEPTION, AND THE ACQUISITION OF VALUES. SELF-CONCEPT RESEARCH AND THEORIES WERE REVIEWED AND REPORTED, AND…

Index cards and audio tape can make the steps of the SQ3R system of study more concrete. This method can be particularly beneficial to "average" college students, who for whatever reason, have difficulty sustaining concentration while reading. The SQ3R method is suitable because of its simplicity, diversity of application, adaptability…

The Teacher Questioning Measure (TQM) was developed to give the student teaching supervisor an objective means of evaluating the questions asked by the student teachers. This instrument was designed to measure six areas of cognitive skills: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Questions are measured on a…

In the concept of writing as learning resides implications for the teaching of composition and reading. Writing's special value as a learning tool lies in the way it can help writers clarify the categories and relationships already in mind as they grapple with new information and ideas. One method that has been used to enable students to use…

Of 21 studies on the effect that question placement had on reading comprehension, ten favored and eleven opposed the use of prequestions. A review of these studies suggests that the issue is not whether prequestions or postquestions produce greater gains in reading comprehension. What remains to be examined is the change in reading comprehension…

THE EFFECT OF FREQUENTLY USED ORAL LANGUAGE PATTERNS IN WRITTEN MATERIAL ON THE READING COMPREHENSION OF FOURTH GRADERS WAS EXAMINED. RUDDELL'S FREQUENCY PATTERNS WERE USED. TWO PASSAGES WERE CONSTRUCTED -- THE FIRST WITH 4 HIGH FREQUENCY PATTERNS (PASSAGE A) AND THE SECOND WITH 4 LOW FREQUENCY PATTERNS (PASSAGE B). FACTORS WITHIN THE PASSAGES…

A sharing period in the first grade can provide children with many opportunities for developing both personally and educationally (e.g., becoming aware of others' attitudes and expressing themselves orally). Moreover, much can be learned by the teacher about students' interests, needs, and abilities when they are encouraged to "brainstorm" such…

A sample of 208 students from grades ten through twelve were randomly assigned to one of four groups in a study of the effects of multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and constructed modes of response to embedded questions on the learner's ability to answer application-type questions. The three experimental groups received five instructional…

Teacher behavior and expectations and teacher-student communication patterns were investigated among urban and suburban teachers of educable mentally retarded and educationally handicapped (emotionally maladjusted and learning disabled) students. Classroom observers recorded teacher-student interaction using a version of the Brophy-Good…

This paper reports an investigation of the effects of two plans on children's listener behavior in a referential communication setting. The design systematically varied the presence and absence of instructions about a plan to engage in comparison activities (comparison plan), and instructions about a plan to request more information if the…