Describes the underlying theory and procedures in developing a reliable category system for systematic observation of teacher-pupil interaction in high school biology classes. The instrument has five dimensions comprising the evaluative, cognitive, procedural, pupil-talk, and silence dimensions which are further divided into forty-five categories…

Through observation of actual office practice, desirable attitudes, personal traits, and characteristics were discovered to be of paramount importance in the acceptable office employee. (CH/Author)

Observations of a normal female child from birth to three years are selected to illustrate some of the ways early gender identity is established. These suggest that meanings conveyed by parents and identification processes contribute to the establishment of significant beginnings of gender identity before the phallic period. (Author)

Reviews parent-child interaction studies, the major source of information about the socialization process of the child. Deals fully with observation studies--naturalistic observation and experimentally arranged interaction in the laboratory--but also draws on interview and questionnaire methods for comparison. (WY)

Development of a measurement technique for recording observations of head banging in an institutionalized mentally handicapped boy is discussed. (CD)