Investigated was the effect of a training program on teacher behavior. Videotaped classroom observations for selected teachers were taken prior to and after short term training on the Taxonomy of Image Provoking Behavior. Each videotape was analyzed and reliability established on each of four major observational instruments. No significant…

The Instrument for Observing Classroom Science Behavior (IOCSB) describes and measures the frequency of classroom science behavior at the elementary school level. It was developed to study the relationship of science attitudes of preservice elementary teachers to subsequent performance in science teaching. During their student teaching period, 38…

This panel's goal was to develop an understanding of the mental life of teachers, a research-based conception of the cognitive processes that characterize that mental life, their antecedents, and their consequences for teaching and student performance. Such cognitive processes include perception, expectancies, diagnostic judgment, prescription,…

The purpose of this study was to extend the research of the first-named author into the effect of teachers' use of conditional language on students' growth in logical thinking. Verbal behaviors of nine mathematics teachers and four social studies teachers were coded and correlated with the gain scores of their eighth-grade students on the Cornell…

Two components of teaching are tasksetting behavior and optimizing behavior. The former is the actions of the teacher to achieve the goals of teaching a specific curriculum; the latter is the actions of the teacher to improve or accelerate the pupil's learning. Reading and physical education teachers were studied to investigate the relationship…

Several years ago a group of researchers at the Stanford Research and Development Center conducted an investigation exploring team organization in elementary schools and its consequences for individual autonomy, collective control of the work setting, and job satisfaction. The findings of that study, known as the Meyer and Cohen study, were…

The purpose of this study was to determine if there were differences in perceptions of a black and a white female observer relative to verbal and nonverbal behaviors exhibited by black and white (male and female) teachers toward black and white (male and female) students. A study conducted by Crump (1974) provided the baseline data for comparison.…

Pupil profiles were presented to teachers which varied on the Social Class (MC/LC) and IQ (131/93) information they contained. Half the Ss (committed condition) completed a questionnaire after reading the profile but prior to working with a child confederate on a task. All Ss completed a questionnaire on the child confederate after the task. On…

The four papers which comprise this booklet on supervision are entitled a) Human Resources Supervision; b) The Case for Staff Development; c) The Advisory System and Supervision; and d) Beyond Accountability. The introduction presents previous views of supervision and discusses implications of recent teacher entrenchment. The first paper contrasts…

This paper describes a computer-based task analysis project which uses a pool of behavioral descriptors for defining the activities of a position holder in a particular situation. A selected sample of these descriptors, from a limited pool of descriptors, obtained from a convenience sample was analyzed. Clusters of descriptors with common…

The Pupil Rating Scale was constructed so that elementary school students could indicate the presence or absence of a variety of teaching behaviors in their classroom. Eight separate subscales were developed: clarity, enthusiasm, difficulty level of lessons, individualization, cognitive level of instruction, variety, democracy, and control…

In order to identify how social studies teachers attempt to resolve values conflict situations, 82 "disinterested" teachers in southeast Ohio responded to a questionnaire. The term "disinterested" is used to describe teachers who did not belong to a professional social studies organization, nor attend conferences specifically geared for updating…

This dissertation examined whether leadership behaviors of the teacher within a particular instructional context were associated with student learning and satisfaction. Data were generated from two samples from distinctly different student populations: Miami Dade Community College and the University of Denver. A 28-item multiple choice examination…

Competency-based teacher education (CBTE) cannot be defended unless a systematic large-scale research effort is directed to discovering the linkage between patterns of teacher behavior and student change. A more immediate need, however, is the development of techniques that (a) permit assessment of skills trainees possess, and (b) provide training…

This bulletin is one of four containing reprints of working papers used in developing the teacher performance specifications for the Georgia educational model for the preparation of elementary school teachers (ED 025 491). "Teacher performance specifications" are defined as descriptions of behaviors regarded by the Georgia study as…