This study investigated teacher decision-making within a tutorial setting. The purpose of the study was to contribute to research about teacher thinking and to provide insight into the courseware design process. The teacher task was to tutor individual students (three fifth grade students per teacher) in a problem solving activity involving a…

Surveys of teachers' use of writing in the classroom indicate that many teachers continue to use writing in a limited capacity, primarily for drill, notetaking, and evaluation. However, while these studies suggest attitudes teachers might hold, they say little about the beliefs that might underlie those attitudes. For example, the observation of…

Results of four experiments concerning the way young people interpret an intended or expressed sanction (praise or blame) from a teacher are presented. The intention of the four studies was to expose the flaws in Meyer's 1984 attempted explanations of such interpretation, in which sanctions are paradoxically received by the student as an…

The Junior High Management Improvement Study involved two urban school districts in two southwestern cities during the 1981-82 school year. In this field experiment on classroom management, experimental group teachers (n=18) and control group teachers (n=20) in four content areas received a manual and attended two workshops at the beginning of the…

This study examined the locus of control of experienced teachers with reference to their gender and academic background; and ascertained the relationships between locus of control and: (1) educational attitudes in general; (2) attitudes toward change; (3) sense of responsibility; and (4) classroom teaching behavior. Subjects were 80 secondary…

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) when applied to an instructional training system, can be used to upgrade industrial trainers on good classroom behavior. (Author)

Each of 15 second-grade Catholic school teachers' top-and bottom-reading group sessions were tape recorded. Good teacher behavior between top and bottom groups was compared by means of a correlated t -test. Findings indicated that teacher behavior may not be adversely affected by teacher expectation. (Author/RC)

The aim of these NIE programs is to supply information about what teachers do that helps their students learn more, and thus what skills prospective teachers should be taught in order to be effective. (Author/RK)

This study is concerned with the effects of teacher contingencies on academic behaviors of normal children at cognitively oriented centers in an open education classroom. Results indicate teacher attention greatly affects preferences for academic and nonacademic centers by kindergarten children. (Author)

Investigates the relationship between institutional affiliation and scholarly activities and outlooks for a sample of Indian engineering faculty. The research is based on a survey of Indian academics conducted in 1971-72. (Editor)

The primary objective of this study was to use factor analytic techniques to test the hypothesized threes dimensional orthogonal structure of the Bales interpersonal role model when applied to science teachers. A second objective was the development of computer programs capable of quickly processing classroom data and providing summarized data for…

This study sought to identify relationships between selected teacher cognitive verbal behaviors and the residual class mean gain achievement scores on a test designed to measure the attainment of instructional goals. The criteria measure was a 38-item true-false test used for both pre- and post-testing of student comprehension. Twenty preservice…

The author focuses on various types of nonverbal communication, reactions of both students and teachers to nonverbal communication, and techniques of developing improved communication to support openness in the classroom. An extensive literature review is presented to support the thesis that the essence of communication is nonverbal; if someone…