Studied the utilization and effectiveness of a televised science series in 54 first through fourth-grade classrooms, using multiple category systems to analyze the questioning behavior of studio and classroom teachers. Concluded that questioning behaviors of teachers with or without the teachers' manual was influenced by the TV broadcast. (CC)

It is proposed that changes in the classroom aimed at effective teaching be based on analysis, theory, and the gathering of data from systematic and controlled observational surveys, laboratory studies and controlled field experiments in the classroom. (Author/JB)

Reveals that (1) it is possible to develop a low per-student-cost computerized verbal category system, (2) teacher behavior was modified and student participation increased, and (3) curriculum investigations suggest that improvement is possible with more experienced coders. (Author)

Examines the move for, and the nature of, competency based teacher education which has emerged as a tentative response to the demand for more accountability in teacher education. A prospective teacher does not exit from a competency based preparation program unless he is able to demonstrate that he has mastered all its publicly stated objectives…

The development of effective team teaching is seen as an answer to many school problems. This author tends to agree, and adds a number of conditions that remind us that it may be easy to say'', but not so easy to do''. (Author)

Considers the implications of administrative accountability, the need for self-evaluation, and the desire to determine relationships between processes used and outcomes produced for recent approaches to collecting evaluation data. (Author/EA)

Presents an inquiry into the nature of principals' written accounts of observations of classroom teaching. (Author/RK)

Discusses the use of corporal punishment in the American school system, the effects it has on children and older students, and the efforts of responsible parents to stop its practice in the schools in concert with court decisions on constitutional rights. (RK)

A procedure for recording and coding teacher and pupil behaviors in the classroom has been described and suggested as an assessment instrument of the school psychologist. (Author)

Reports degree of relationship between assessments of teachers' procedural and verbal behavior made independently by teacher self report, student checklists, and the observations of an outside observer. (AL)

A significant relationship was found between modes of teacher influence and use of cognitive levels, as well as between levels of teacher cognition and that of pupils in pupil response categories but not in pupil initiation categories. (Author)