This interim report is part of a longitudinal study of developmental behavior designed to determine whether infants from culturally disadvantaged homes have different developmental patterns than infants from advantaged homes. Twenty six culturally disadvantaged infants were individually evaluated on the Bayley Scale of Infant Mental and Motor…

A category system was developed to describe content development in chemistry classes. The instrument had three broad dimensions: the Semantic dimension for coding the intent of the teacher in developing content; the Syntactic dimension for coding the actual meaning of the communication; and the Initiate-Supply dimension for coding the participants…

During its first year, this project placed 54 professors from 16 Mississippi senior colleges as paid team consultants in 27 elementary and secondary classrooms. Each three-member team was composed of a teacher and two professors from different colleges. The professors observed, assisted, and tutored classes which included disadvantaged children, a…

This pilot study was designed to appraise the effectiveness of two methods for facilitating learning in the affective domain in an elementary school setting. The two methods evaluated were: (1) teacher reinforcement of verbalization of feelings; and (2) feelings classes. Pre- and post-treatment measures on the two groups of randomly assigned third…

This paper describes the 2-year evolution of an ongoing program of inservice training for public school personnel designed to train observers in the use of a systematic observation technique--the Reciprocal Category System. The 605 participants include teachers, librarians, administrators, and central office personnel. Nine aspects of the four…

In order to compare the behavior of teachers at different grade levels within Project PLAN, a program of individualized instruction, eight observers were trained in the use of a specially developed teacher observation system (PLAN-TOS) which includes 17 categories of behavior, and observations were made of all 66 Project PLAN teachers in the 14…

Two articles comprise the bulk of this bulletin. One discusses the use of television equipment in the teaching of psychiatry, dwelling on eight different program formats which have been developed and on five major areas in which the use of television and videotape recorders offers distinct advantages. The second article offers a review of the…

A study was undertaken to determine (1) if six student teachers who received instruction (in eight weekly individual or group training and feedback sessions) in the use of Bloom's taxonomy would operate within the classroom at a higher cognitive level than a control group of six who received equal time instruction using a placebo-type treatment;…

Even within the common goal of teaching youth to read, teachers in inner-city secondary schools should be concerned with variation and differentiation in program emphasis for a specific school. An all-school reading survey might be used to determine student ability, achievement, and interests and to give direction in establishing a program suited…

The emphasis of this instructional module is inductive reasoning, using the concept of graphing as a convenient means to record observations for subsequent mental operations. Performance objectives are: (1) construct a prediction from a point graph by applying the rules of extrapolation and interpolation; (2) demonstrate a test of prediction; (3)…

This instructional module for teacher education has two main goals: (a) participants will group objects or events and (b) participant will share his grouping with others, either verbally or with graphs. The graphing conventions used in the module are based on the materials developed by the Commission on Science Education of the American…

The PLAN Student Observation Scale (PLAN-SOS) was developed to measure the percentage of time that students spend performing various behaviors judged to be important to the learning process in the system of individualized instruction upon which Project PLAN is based. An earlier document reported the use of this instrument in comparing PLAN…

Sixty-five student-teachers' performance was tested to determine laboratory grades. Grading was based on Category Observation System TDS. Since TDS categories are structures of two ordered facts where order has the same meaning, general score of pupil stimulation was computer calculated. Students' previous awareness as to score calculation enabled…

The purpose of this project was to assess the degree to which the most popular method of calculating reliability of interval data, the I-I method, served the author's scientific purposes. Data were collected and analyses performed to assess the adequacy of I-I reliability scores in serving three functions: (1) as an index of how precise, clear,…

Five members of the planning committee for the proposed Mission College campus took an inspection tour of five exemplary colleges in the East and Middle West: Miami-Dade Junior College, Miami; Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, N.J.; Governors State University, Crete, Ill.; Oakland Community College, Orchard Ridge Campus, Farmington, Mich.;…