Reports a study revealing that teachers who regularly read professional journals teach poetry more effectively, according to standardized test scores, than teachers who do not read professional journals; however, according to students' and professional observers' ratings, those who do not read professional journals are more effective poetry…

The home observations of the patient's interaction with his spouse and children are used to define treatment goals and to measure behavior change. Also it focuses on the therapist patient interaction on behavioral and interpersonal problems, and provides a way of involving the patient's environment in the treatment process. (Author)

Observations of parent-child interaction indicate that mother's positive feeling is correlated with her child's sociability, curiosity, attentiveness, manipulation, and offering information. (AJ)

Presents data using an observational technique, APPROACH, which describes the behaviors of young children in naturalistic social situations. (WY)

"This article is a summary report of efforts to study teachers in existing school systems as a prelude to formulating one or more role models of teacher behaviors for individualized instruction. (Authors)

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to investigate and analyze the teaching procedures of two groups of elementary science teachers. Observations of science lessons taught by 15 SCIS-trained teachers and 15 non-SCIS-trained teachers revealed significant differences in the number of "science experiences …

Presents the procedures, results, and implications of a study designed to (1) develop a reliable category system and method of encoding biology teacher behaviors and (2) use the developed category system and the method of encoding to obtain an objective description of the classroom behaviors of biology teachers. (LC)

Traditional analysis of school learning or behavior problems does not seem to lead to meaningful educational recommendations. A model for assessment is prescribed wherein individual testing might prove more productive and which ultimately presents the school psychologist as a specialist in education and an observer in situ. (Author)