This manual is designed as a practical handbook for air pollution control officials. A variety of situations and tasks encountered in field operations are described and the appropriate action which should be taken is explained Topics include source detection, source inspection, recording and reporting inspections, maintaining a recording system,…

This investigation developed a procedure for scoring English compositions that would be simple enough for use by junior college instructors with minimal statistical assistance, and still yield data that would allow sound inferences regarding student placement procedures and assessment of instructional effects. Twenty-one instructors from 14 junior…

This investigation was designed to determine the effects of a perceptual modeling concept on the verbal behaviors of student teachers in their student teaching experience. The major objectives were 1) to determine the effects on verbal behavior of a videotape versus a verbal presentation of an interaction analysis system, and 2) to identify those…

An ongoing behavioral model for implementing staff development and evaluation procedures is proposed, which systematically focuses on assessing and facilitating behavioral change in the classroom and enables the educational executive to assess what is actually happening there. The administrator is thus provided with the necessary information to…

General systems for analyzing instructional interaction have found the most common teacher behavior to be asking questions. This evaluation compares and contrasts two systems for analyzing teacher questions: Price-Belland, developed by the authors from the Bloom-Saunders tradition, and Hough-Duncan, modified for detailed question analysis.…

The purpose of this study was to develop paradigms of verbal interaction for problem solving discussions. Taking selected definitions from previously published work, categories were built which classify verbal moves. Using the categories, models of verbal interaction were built which subsumed such verbal interaction concepts as the venture, move,…

The purpose of this study was to translate a general cognitive observation system, the "Florida Taxonomy of Cognitive Behavior," into a system specific to mathematics. Firstly, a group of 20 mathematics educators generated a preliminary Taxonomy. Secondly, this taxonomy was critiqued by a group of 55 mathematics educators while, independently, a…

Systematic observation of teacher behavior in several classrooms of an informal British infant schools was undertaken in order to determine typical patterns of interaction between teacher and child. Among the major findings reported are the following: 1) a typical pattern of teacher behavior in which extended substantive discussions with one or a…

Nine scales were developed to measure a series of classroom behavior variables derived from a factor analytic study of five observation systems. The scales are multipoint check lists which are behaviorally referenced by different amounts and types of classroom behaviors. The scales measure such aspects of classroom behavior as teacher-initiated…

Scoring categories and administration instructions are given for use with the manual for the Draw-A-Classroom Test. The manual, also available, should be consulted if drawings are to be scored. This appendix to the manual is divided into five sections on space, persons, drawing the person, classroom constants, and objects. Specific details of the…

This report is concerned with systems useful for observing parent-child behavior. Part I. discusses observations in contrived situations, unstructured situations; in neighborhoods, laboratory, home and classroom. The paper details the point-time sampling approach, intersession rating procedure, anecdotal records, diary descriptions, (topical and…

The normal duties and responsibilities of school supervisors employed in 24 selected rural West Virginia school districts were determined through descriptive research methodology, and these duties and responsibilities were evaluated in terms of their importance to the supervision function. Questionnaires were sent to 38 supervisors; 34 were…

The study compared the effect of two training methods on pre- and post-student teachers' use of pedagogical moves in teaching. One treatment group classified moves from two videotaped lessons while the other group classified moves from the typewritten transcripts of the videotaped lessons. The frequency of moves used by the student teachers was…

Classroom behaviors of 24 primary reading teachers whose students averaged 1.27 academic years gain per 8 months instruction over the past 3-5 years were observed. Results indicated that, while many of the demonstrated behaviors adhered to advocated practices, several of their behaviors have been strongly criticized in the literature. (Author/NQ)

An approach to classroom observation assignments in teacher education programs is described which focuses on recording a systematic, objective record. (DS)