Observer disagreement is important insofar as it limits the reliabilities of observational records. This discussion evolves around methods and conditions under which observer agreement can be measured as to minimize such an occurrence. Observers should be trained to nearly perfect agreement with a criterion or expert coder on unambiguous examples…

Pupil control behavior is conceptualized as a continuum ranging from custodialism, which views students as irresponsible and undisciplined and needing strictness and punishment, to humanism, which emphasizes a democratic atmosphere in which students are capable of self-discipline and are treated accordingly. The theoretical framework for this…

The effects that the state-funded Illinois Regional Area Service Centers have had on education generally and on teacher behavior specifically were analyzed, and a comparison was made with data gathered on the forerunner institution--the demonstration center. In both cases, teachers were asked to write an example of a change that occurred as a…

A basic assumption of the transfer-of-control paradigm is that education involves a gradual shift in responsibility for learning from the teacher to the student. Several issues derived from this approach have been investigated in the three studies reported here: relationship between teacher characteristics and teacher control styles; the effects…

Research has indicated that teachers are willing to be involved and are capable of being involved in instructional development. According to Kingham and Benham, team teaching has failed in the past due to three causes: a) no planning time, b) personality clashes, and c) inability to integrate the material. To solve these three problems, one can…

As a result of a concern over the adequacy of teacher rating instruments, a project was begun to develop a pool of items describing teacher behavior. Most of the items were derived from the literature; some were written by the project. The item pool presently consists of 1137 items subsumed under 19 categories. Examples of categories are: personal…

Recent interest in the direct, descriptive study of teaching has led to renewed attention to the types of questions asked by teachers. An important contributing factor has also been the progress made in the analysis of cognitive operations and the identification of a complex hierarchy of operations. Several observation systems developed from…

The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether instructional behavior learned during a series of simulated teaching experiences using peers as students would transfer to a setting in which "real" pupils were students. Subjects were 44 undergraduate students in the secondary education program at the University of Texas at Austin. Each…

This study evaluated the effects of a sequence of microteaching tasks on the teaching behavior of secondary education students. Audio tape recorded lessons of two groups of students were compared. One group of 27 taught ten lessons in a teaching laboratory using a sequence of instructional and learning tasks. A control group of 27 taught two…

This taxonomy of teacher performance is geared to individualization among teachers. The procedure used in developing this taxonomy involved the specification and selection of a data bank of teacher behaviors, the organization of these behaviors into a meaningful structure, a deductive process of modifying the structure to better correspond to the…

This project investigated three methods of providing supervisory feedback to junior-year student teachers about specific verbal teaching behaviors. Subjects were divided into three groups and, during their regular 9-week student teaching assignments, completed two 20-minute teaching situations which were coded with Flanders' Interaction Analysis.…

This paper identifies the main findings, goals, and limitations of research related to teacher questioning behavior. It is based on a review of the literature and research conducted by the author who developed and utilized a multiple-category question classification system in 54 elementary school classrooms. A number of limitations that have…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a significant difference in the verbal responses and test responses of high school biology students as a result of training in higher level questioning of student teachers. The sample included two groups of 28 biology student teachers. The experimental group was instructed in the use of…

The present study was an attempt to determine whether the behavior of teachers-in-training could be modified by providing them with immediate feedback as to their classroom performance. Two groups of undergraduate teaching interns were outfitted with wireless FM receivers. One group was given praise (by an observer fitted with a wireless…

This document presents long-range goals for teacher education programs and charts representing the implementation of these goals. The charts are divided into three sections: Long-Range Goals (Examples), Teacher Behavior (Examples), and Preservice Tasks (Examples). (MJM)