This report describes the development and contents of a computerized catalog of teacher training products. The catalog was compiled by the staff of the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching (SCRDT) Program on Teaching Effectiveness as part of an effort to develop a systematic teacher training model. A 117-item product…

This study investigated the observable changes, if any, of 58 elementary education student teachers following completion of field experience programs. Behavior rating forms were completed by the prospective kindergarten to sixth grade teachers, the public school cooperating teachers, the university supervisors, and a control group of 35 non-field…

This research study was intended as a basis for developing a device to measure college classroom teaching effectiveness. A review of some of the literature indicated that most past efforts to evaluate college teaching had used some sort of rating form and the results were quite ambiguous. However, 3 studies using the critical incident technique…

A study attempted to improve the results of correlating personality characteristics with teaching behavior within the setting of a microteaching laboratory. Self-theory constructs were used to predict teaching behavior. Subjects (80 education students) were administered the Self-Report Inventory (SRI) and the Adjective Rating Scale for Self…

Three premises underlie the practice of microteaching: that much of teaching consists of behaviors, that the total performance can be broken into smaller pieces of behavior with little consideration given to the relationship between these parts, and that of a teaching performance can be usefully analyzed without consideration of what precedes or…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of training teachers in the use of strategies for content development through classroom communication behaviors, to determine the discriminatory power of the Content Analysis System, and to describe some of the relationships of content development characteristics and interaction…

Organizational conflict theory asserts that when organizational homeostasis becomes unbalanced, the participants in the conflict should communicate more. To test this assertion, the average total frequency of principal-teacher oral and written communications over an identical 20-day period were correlated with two empirically-determined…

This study examines the relationship between two measures of inquiry-verbal communication: The Science Classroom Activities Checklist (SCAC) and a modified form of the Parakh System of Interaction Analysis. The sample for this study consisted of ten randomly selected classrooms: three ninth-grade general science classrooms, six ninth-grade earth…

A system to identify strategies of justification used by teachers in the classroom was developed and used to classify secondary school mathematics teacher discourse. Justification of assertion and action were labeled "validation" and "vindication," respectively. Eight strategies were identified - six of validation and two of vindication. The most…

The Speech Education Department of Northwestern University is placing strong emphasis on a Simulated Classroom Instruction course designed to aid students in developing a philosophy of teaching and an understanding of themselves as teachers, specifically speech teachers. The course is intended to give potential speech teachers opportunities to:…

This study examined the concurrent validity of observed teacher behavior as a predictor of teacher philosophy, teacher professional attitude, and teacher ability to forecast first-grade reading achievement. The population consisted of ten first-grade teachers and 260 students from five Farmington, Utah, schools. In early September, before any…

The effect of the student teaching experience on self-concept was investigated. In the spring semester 1971-72, 260 students were enrolled in the student teaching courses in the College of Education, Louisiana State University (LSU). At the beginning and end of the semester, they were asked to respond to two Likert-type rating scales: self as a…

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of an inservice teacher education on indirect instruction. The sample was comprised of 25 junior high school teachers from the state of New York. All 25 teachers were taped three times at the beginning of the school year, three times at the middle of the year, and three times at the end.…

Data were collected on rate-per-minute of administering token reinforcement for one male and seven female teachers enrolled in a behavior modification seminar. The study was conducted in four self-contained and four open classrooms. In the observer-present condition, data were obtained during 15-minute classroom observation periods. In the…

To see if teachers as a group hold self-concepts different from those of nonteachers, a test group of student teachers and noneducation majors was asked to fill out, both as freshmen and seniors, the Tennessee Self Concept Rating Scale. The various compared results indicated differences in the direction of greater positive feelings of self, both…