The focus of this paper is on women with respect to three themes: the reasons why women are attracted to ethnographic research, the problems they may encounter in making this choice, and the prospects for women researchers to influence the future direction of educational research. Four interrelated psychological aspects seem to attract women to…

Describes the involvement of pupils in increasing the frequency of teacher attention to appropriate classroom behaviors. Results indicate pupils can be successful intervention agents in aiding the teacher modify her behavior. (Author)

describes a program in which junior high school students learned about child development and young children by studying theories of child development, observing preschool children, and working with them in a nursery school setting. (ST)

Describes a program in which junior high school girls, who had taken a course in child development, worked as student teachers in a nursery school. (ST)

This study examined mother/child interactions during feedings for full-term, healthy premature, and sick premature newborns. Ten first-born infants in each of these categories were observed with their parents once in the hospital, twice at home, and once in the laboratory during the first 4 months of life. Observations focused on the position in…

This document presents twenty-two instruments for the examination of practices in school management by principals. They are an outcome of the Principals 505 Project, which was intended to develop competency standards for the certification of principals based on observed classroom practice. The instruments organize descriptors, which identify…

The purpose of the exploratory study reported here was to investigate the nature of children's behavior in unstreamed, informal, junior classrooms where the children sit in small groups and the incidence of private teacher talk to small groups and individual children is high. (Author)

Article provided teachers with a system for measuring their interaction with their students. (RK)

Article described a "walk-through", designed to identify the common or prevalent patterns of interaction within a school, and proposed a method of evaluation that would help shift the focus of professional judgment from subjective reaction to objective analysis of data. (Author/RK)

To present a detailed description of what school superintendents actually do, not what they perceive themselves doing or what they ought to do, this project utilized unstructured, nonparticipant observation of six superintendents on the job. Four trained observers recorded the administrators' activities throughout every minute of the workday for…

The relationship between diversity in the contents of preschool children's lunchboxes, food waste, and other variables was investigated among 32 children in a rural day care center located in a university community. Lunchbox contents and food waste were observed on five occasions for each child. Data were gathered on 10 variables (such as age of…

As part of an on-going evaluation study of the bilingual program at St. Joseph Elementary School in Quebec, Canada, this document reports on its operation during the 1980-81 school year. During this year, pupils in grade one followed a modified social studies program through French, while pupils in kindergarten followed a revised edition of the…