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Haan, Norma – 1968
This report presents the results of an investigation of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) program and the effects of the Materials Objects unit on first-grade students and teachers. The contents of the report include purposes and limitations of the study, discussion of the instruments, observers, reliability of the Q sort, the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Download full textSmith, Douglas K. – 1978
Classroom behavior of elementary level teachers who display contrasting styles of socialization was analyzed. The Classroom Management Questionnaire, an instrument designed to measure socialization style as derived from Aronfreed's Induction-Sensitization Paradigm, was administered to a sample of elementary teachers. Those scoring one standard…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Induction
Oien, Fred M. – 1979
A study of five teachers and 316 junior high school physical education students reveals an unequal distribution of positive reinforcement teacher behavior among individual students. Factors influencing the amount of rewarding behavior directed to students include elements such as student gender, teacher perception of student skill level, student…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Individual Characteristics, Junior High Schools
Gennari, Patricia A. – 1979
The relationship between teacher training procedures that emphasize matching teacher behaviors with students' cognitive styles is investigated. Also explored is the association between the teacher's initial stage of role acquisition and the selection of decision-making patterns for planning and implementing matching models instruction. The study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Cognitive Style, Decision Making
Prawat, Richard S. – 1979
The study reported in this paper focuses on teacher perceptions of students' affective or noncognitive behavior in the classroom. Elementary school teachers were asked to describe in writing five events or situations involving students that they judged to be fairly typical and that had occurred in their classrooms. The emphasis was upon events…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Classroom Techniques, Emotional Response
WEINBERG, CARL; AND OTHERS – 1968
A STUDY WAS MADE IN 18 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY DELAWARE SCHOOLS TO INVESTIGATE THE SEPARATE AND INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF ROLES, ORGANIZATIONS, AND PERSONALITIES ON THE ALIENATION OF TEACHERS. PERSONALITY WAS DESIGNATED AS ABSTRACT AND CONCRETE. ROLES WERE DESIGNATED AS AUTHORITARIAN-RITUALISTIC, INSTRUMENTAL, RITUALISTIC-GRATIFICATORY, AND…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Personality, Public Schools, Questionnaires
Garrison, Jesse – 1968
A study was conducted to design a system of testing and interviewing which would bring into some relationship the personal characteristics of teacher education students and the external or setting demands made on public school teachers. The major purpose was to provide an opportunity for each student to examine his behavior in a safe and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Counseling Services, Educational Experiments, Educational Philosophy
Erickson, Edsel L.; And Others – 1968
This document is the first year's report of a continuing study of the effects of two Head Start preschool experimental programs. Subjects were children from poverty areas in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Seven teachers who were most opposed to a Bereiter-Engelmann type highly academic structured program were assigned to Group I; and seven teachers least…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Curriculum, Disadvantaged
Russell, Thomas L. – 1977
This study sought to identify and elaborate significant strategic elements in the process of assisting science teachers in the application of philosophical analysis to their teaching, and in the modification of their teaching according to the results of analysis. The research is based on case studies of work with teachers, individually and in…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Research, Inservice Teacher Education, Science Education
Gabrys, Robert E. – 1978
The purpose of this study was to ascertain if preservice elementary teachers could exhibit an increase in businesslike behavior in their classroom interactions with pupils without negatively affecting teacher warmth, after undergoing a training intervention focused specifically on businesslike behavior. Previous studies indicated a positive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Higher Education, Human Relations
Mayes, Bea – 1977
Eighteen first grade reading classes in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn were studied for differences in teacher verbal behavior in various types of reading programs. Nine of the classes were using the Direct Instructional System for Teaching Arithmetic and Reading (DISTAR) and nine of the classes were using the less structured…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Conventional Instruction, Grade 1, Primary Education
Robinson, Bryan E. – 1977
This study examined the contingency behaviors, attitudinal dispositions, and personality traits of male caregivers in day care settings. A random sample of 20 male caregivers was contrasted with 20 female caregivers and 20 male engineers on measures of sex-typed attitudes and personality traits. Male and female caregivers were also contrasted on…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Comparative Analysis, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Smith, Leonard – 1975
The purpose of this practicum was to make secondary school teachers more aware of their own behavior with children as individuals and to bring about change in a direction perceived by teachers, students, and the practicum designer to be positive rather than negative. One hundred twenty grade 7 students were selected to make up the Mentor Program…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Grade 7, Human Development, Junior High School Students
Powell, Marjorie – 1976
Although there are many qualifications, it appears from several major research undertakings that teacher behaviors are in fact related to student learning, but that specific behaviors may be less important than patterns of teacher behaviors and, further, that such patterns of behaviors are differentially effective for different students, grade…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Elementary Education
White, D. R.
A long-term Leverhulme Research Project was established at Stirling University in 1970 to investigate the potential of microteaching as a major ingredient in the preparation of graduate high school teachers in Scotland. Members of the research team developed systematic observation schedules for each of the skills, in order to sharpen the focus of…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation Methods, Lesson Observation Criteria, Measurement Techniques
