This report briefly reviews research on teacher effectiveness and presents the conclusions of a 2-day conference held in October 1969 to consider issues related to the assessment of teacher effectiveness and make recommendations to the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) regarding the encouragement of research in this area. The committee concluded…

In the study reported here, teachers were given a 5th grade student's report card to which was attached a photo of either an attractive boy, an unattractive boy, an attractive girl, or an unattractive girl. Teachers completed an opinion sheet indicating their best estimate of: (1) the child's IQ; (2) his peer relationships; (3) the parents'…

This study focused on the Instructor-Group Interaction Scale, formulated by Hildebrand, Wilson, and Dienst (1971), to explore the feasibility and usefulness of an instrument for recording instructor-group interaction in the college classroom. It was hypothesized that data from the scale would (a) provide the instructor with the pattern of…

The second of an expected series of reports on studies designed to analyze the effects of the installation of a curriculum system in a school district upon the curriculum attitudes and self-perceptions of teachers in that district is presented. The system of curriculum engineering involves all school district personnel in curriculum planning and…

The purpose of this study was to determine what variables among a selected number of teacher characteristics and teacher perceptions of school environment contribute to the successful installation of Science - A Process Approach (SAPA). Success in installation was determined by the number of exercises used and by proficiency on SAPA Competency…

This is the fourth report of the Commission on Public School Personnel Policies in Ohio to educators and the general public. The report is based on a survey of school superintendents, principals, teachers, and personnel directors in over 50 districts throughout the state. The report focuses on the need for teacher evaluation and the actions…

The objectives of this study are twofold: a) measuring students' expressive engagement levels while increasing the teachers' use of two teaching strategies, Personalizing the Task (PT) and Recognizing Individual Achievement (RIA); and b) testing the use of observation, feedback, and training as a practical model for changing teacher behavior.…

Social learning theory is the theory that is applied through microteaching. The two critical sets of social learning variables mediated through microteaching are those associated with modeling and feedback. Microteaching is also a way of bringing specific teaching responses under experimental and behavioral control. Thus in each microteaching…

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between teacher behavior and student achievement in the Bereiter-Engelmann program. Ten groups were observed in the first study, 24 groups in the second. All teachers were rated on four occasions using a highly specific rating scale. The pre- and postmeasures were criterion-referenced.…

Two experiments were conducted to compare the effects of two different experimentally induced orientations toward lesson objectives on teachers' instructional behaviors and the consequent achievement of their pupils. In each experiment, 36 student teachers were randomly assigned to one of two treatments. Each treatment required the teachers to…

The purpose of this research was to assess the criterion-referenced validity of student ratings of instructors. A total of 480 undergraduates rated their instructors using a special rating scale designed to parallel the Flanders Interaction Analysis Categories. Expert observers also rated the instructors using the standard form of the Flanders…

The major purposes of this study were to analyze classroom behavior as a product of student-teacher interaction, and to determine teaching patterns identified with student mastery of stated instructional objectives in reading. A sample of twenty-two first grade teacher-student groups were video taped during instruction in phoneme-grapheme…

Investigated was the effect of organizational climate on the biology curriculum practices as perceived by the students. The major hypothesis of the study expressed the expectation that open climate biology teachers would incorporate a different mode of curriculum practices than would closed climate biology teachers. Data were collected by use of…

This study investigated the possibility that a teacher's preconceived idea of the worth of an instructional material would affect the academic achievement of the students with whom the material was used. Twenty-four classes of educable retarded children were randomly assigned to one of three groups. Groups I and II were experimenta; group III was…

The fundamental differences in classroom social structure and the effect of teaching behavior on the unique patterns of classroom social structures were studied. Subjects included fifth-grade classrooms with female teachers in a small city school system. Eighteen classrooms with a total of 576 children fit these criteria. Instrumentation included…