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…

The report describes a model used to evaluate gifted programs. The model is said to rely on three sources of data: (1) structured narrative observation (the Gifted Class Activities Observation Scale); (2) teacher interviews; and (3) pupil interviews. (Sample forms appended.) The application of theory with this procedure resulted in an evaluation…

The study of the role parents play in the reading development of their children requires a methodology that is unobtrusive, humane, objective, and natural. Ethnography, with its corresponding technique of participant observation, offers these characteristics. The distinctive features of an ethnographic research design include: formulation of the…

Text, illustrations, and exercises are utilized in this set of four learning modules designed to instruct nurses and nursing students in writing objective clinical reports. The first module, "Nursing Notes in POMR" by Roberta L. Andrews, discusses the four components of a nursing report written under the Problem-Oriented Medical Record…

The ten items in this annotated bibliography are articles and documents in the ERIC system concerning evaluation of teachers. Research surveys cited focus on the present state of teacher evaluation, the use of observation reports, how often teachers desire to be evaluated, and principals' ideas of teacher effectiveness. Other topics covered are…

Some research has found that observers believe overt mimicry is socially unacceptable and embarrassing in the presence of a stranger. It was hypothesized that observers would inhibit their mimicry of learned pairs of gestures in the presence of a stranger, and that their learning would be adversely affected unless they compensated for the…

This document is the fifth volume in a set of five Career Education Measurement Handbooks intended to help local education personnel in measurement and evaluation. Divided into seven chapters, this handbook is designed to provide practical guidelines for using observational techniques to take readings of the feelings, perceptions, and reactions of…

THE STUDY ATTEMPTED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NEED STRUCTURE OF THE TEACHER WITH RESPECT TO ACHIEVEMENT, AFFILIATION, RECOGNITION AND CONTROL, AND THE TEACHER'S PERFORMANCE IN THE CLASSROOM. THERE WERE THREE SEPARATE PHASES TO THIS RESEARCH--(1) INSTRUMENTS WERE DESIGNED TO MEASURE THE NEEDS OF TEACHERS IN THE CATEGORIES MENTIONED…

BEFORE ANY DIAGNOSTIC READING INSTRUCTION IS DONE, TEACHERS SHOULD DETERMINE THE INSTRUCTIONAL LEVEL OF THE CHILD AND SHOULD PINPOINT HIS SPECIFIC SKILL NEEDS BY CAREFULLY OBSERVING HIS ORAL READING BEHAVIOR. THE FOLLOWING SKILLS ARE SUGGESTED AS GOOD INDICATORS OF THE CHILD'S ATTEMPT TO APPLY PHONICS KNOWLEDGE--(1) THE USE OF CONTEXT TO PREDICT…

THE POTENTIAL OF CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION AND VIDEO TAPE RECORDINGS AS "OBSERVATION AMPLIFIERS" IN TEACHER TRAINING IS EXPLORED. IT IS FELT THAT DEMONSTRATIONS VIEWED VIA THESE MEDIA CAN BE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS. SUGGESTIONS ARE MADE FOR FURTHER RESEARCH. (MS)