Reported is a study to investigate the effectiveness of an instructional technique designed to enable preservice students enrolled in science methods courses to acquire skill in the use of nonverbal cues and the use of silence. Students were randomly assigned to experimental (9 students) and control (10 students) groups. The vehicle for skill…

Competency-based teacher education should be directed toward teaching skills that have an impact on learners. Studies are needed that assess the effects of teachers using various skills on the achievement and attitudes of their pupils. In this study, teachers studied question asking skills in an inservice training program. The effects of the…

A scheme which classifies the instructional applications of computers is designed to overcome the confusion created by the imprecision and equivocation associated with computer terminology. The classification is restricted to instructional applications, allows that some applications could apply to more than one category, and reflects a continuum…

The primary purpose of this study was to identify and describe individual differences in teaching style (i.e., teachers' patterns of questioning and explaining) in a standardized teaching situation. The secondary purpose was to explore relationships between teaching behavior and other teacher characteristics: teaching experience; sex and selected…

Comprehension of a problem or task that is generated in the real world rather than presented as a well-defined problem-statement of the kind encountered in textbooks or psychological laboratories was related to the ability of recognizing, selecting and formulating problems. The process of acquiring and utilizing this ability was conceptualized…

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effectiveness of training students to generate their own questions prior to reading. The subjects were 116 seventh grade students enrolled in a junior high school developmental reading course. Three groups were formed: subjects receiving experimental treatment A, subjects receiving…

Reported is a comparison of the effectiveness of two instructional methods of preservice elementary teachers in teaching science as well as a comparison of the relationships of initial attitudes toward teaching science and science process skill competencies to initial teaching behaviors. Forty lower elementary preservice teachers were randomly…

Relationships of science attitudes, science content, and process knowledge to initial science teaching behaviors were studied among 25 student teachers of a liberal arts college. The 13-subject experimental group was subjected to an elementary school methods course with emphases upon positive attitudes and process knowledge. The control group was…

This report focuses on the nature and structure of the question and its use as an educational technique enabling the language teacher to involve his students in the use of the target language. Discussion concentrates on: (1) the question in the basic level class, (2) the question as a testing technique, (3) the question as a vocabulary activator…

The purposes of this study were to analyze questions used in the teaching of non-narrative poetry and to ascertain whether it is possible to establish any generally useful, basic pattern of question asking that would provide the student some fundamental guidelines for the study of this type of literature. First, a detailed examination of Robert…

This booklet has been written to improve the inquiry techniques of elementary school science teachers. It is designed for self-study and has been used in summer workshops. The principles presented for teaching science include: the central importance of pupil involvement, the gains from free pupil interaction, the benefits of effective questioning,…

The major problem investigated was to assess the effectiveness of an instructional procedure designed to develop skill in questioning, as a teaching technique, by prospective science teachers. Subproblems investigated were to determine: (1) if skill developed during this instructional sequence would transfer to the student teaching experience; and…

This exercise, designed for use by upper elementary and high school students, introduces the concepts of model and system. By examining a physical model, such as a top, the student learns the concepts of model and system which can later be applied to the study of social systems. A large system of interrelated parts is examined and the system and…

A study of the objectives and teaching practices of an introductory college physics course was conducted by personally interviewing 24 instructors in six Oklahoma colleges and universities and audiotaping their 45 classes. The instructors' questions in classes were cross-classified by type and purpose. The question-types included directive,…

Eighty-seven junior college students were assigned at random to one of four treatment groups for which the position (before or after) and type (lower-order vs. higher-order) of questions inserted in a prose passage were varied, or to a control group for which no questions were inserted in the passage. Students were given five aptitude tests prior…