Observational data was taken in the homes of 17 abuse, 17 neglect, and 19 control families to discover whether there are distinctive patterns of day-to-day interaction that distinguish abusive and neglectful families from families with no known history of abusing or neglecting their children. The observational code was recorded through the…

A naturalistic-observational study of three inner-city, working-class mother-infant pairs was conducted to study early language development and maternal teaching styles. The subjects were three white 2-year-olds and their mothers. Observations were made under everyday conditions as the infants interacted with their mothers and other family members…

A computer program named Program STANDARD is presented and demonstrated. This program calculates the statistical significance of the overall agreement of the categorical assignments. The program is based on Light's statistic, G, for describing the conjoint agreement of many observers with correct or standard set of classifications on nominal…

Researchers in the Procedures for Adopting Educational Innovations Program at the University of Texas have developed an "Intervention Taxonomy" to help classify and define interventions and components of interventions. It is hoped that this taxonomy will enable change facilitators and researchers to make conceptual and operational…

It was hypothesized that the perception of the nonverbal behavior of the teacher held by the student may differ from the perception held by an outside observer. This study was designed to compare participant and nonparticipant observers' perception of teacher nonverbal behavior as having encouraging or discouraging affect qualities during a…

This is the second in a series of four reports describing a study of 1,614 junior high school mathematics and English students and 69 of their teachers that was undertaken to discover the effects of different teaching behaviors on cognitive and affective student outcomes. This booklet deals with instruments used to collect data and includes…

This is the fourth in a series of four reports describing a study of 1,614 junior high school mathematics and English students and 69 of their teachers that was undertaken to discover the effects of different teaching behaviors on cognitive and affective student outcomes. This booklet is the working manual used for coder training and includes…

This paper describes a project which focused primarily on developing a method for qualitatively assessing and describing curiosity/inquiry styles in individual children. A class of "puzzling-phenomenon" tasks for idiographic assessment of scientific curiosity/inquiry was developed and individually administered to five rural and five urban…

This study investigated: (1) the effects of early mother-infant interaction on the infant's cognitive and social development during the first year of life; (2) the impact of perinatal factors on that development; and (3) the differences, if any, in the impact of mother-infant interaction and perinatal factors on preterm and full term infants.…

This document provides a description of the data collection procedures and the results of data collection for observation of teaching behaviors in the sample classrooms in Phase III-B of the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study. During the 1976-77 school year, the behaviors of the teachers within the Phase III-B sample were observed approximately…

The paper discusses the teacher's use of such informal techniques as observation and checklists to detect students' particular instructional or behavioral needs, to detect areas of strength or weakness, and to formulate remedial programs. (Author/SBH)

This document provides a 67-item observational instrument to be used for the evaluation and description of science teaching in the elementary school. No data regarding the instrument are provided. Sections of the instrument include: (1) use of intellectual development stages; (2) performance objectives; (3) lesson planning skills; (4) instruction…

This report describes the observer's manual and the corresponding trainer's manual for the classroom observation instrument which was designed to code the behavior of the teacher during reading instruction. The "Reading: Teacher Observation Scale (TOS)" has been designed to be used with a corresponding observation instrument which…

This report describes the observer's manual and the corresponding trainer's manual for the classroom observation instrument which was designed to code the behavior of students during reading instruction. The "Reading: Student Observation Scale" has been designed to be used with a corresponding observation instrument which focuses on the…

Relationships between first and third grade classroom instructional practices and child outcomes (i.e. test scores, days absent, and observed child behavior) were assessed in seven Project Follow Through educational programs. The programs chosen represented a wide spectrum of innovative educational theories. The range included two models based on…