The effects of minor illness on infants' social behavior were studied among disadvantaged infants who attended a day-care program. Twelve infants aged 4 1/2 to 6 months were observed once while playing alone and once while interacting with their teachers each week for 6 weeks. A time-sampling procedure was used to record frequencies of…

This report presents results of analyses of factors affecting reading achievement of 14,318 pupils in 34 elementary schools in Washington, D.C., as measured by the percentage of objectives mastered on the Prescriptive Reading Test and students' interest in reading for the school year 1977-78. It also presents descriptive information about…

This monograph was designed to evaluate current research in the middle school area and to assess the state of this research and its impact on practitioners. The lead article concerns the status of middle school research. It offers a discussion of flaws in much of past research, including problems of inconclusive results, low technical quality,…

CRITICAL INCIDENTS REFLECTING OUTSTANDINGLY EFFECTIVE BEHAVIOR IN STUDENT TEACHING OF HOME ECONOMICS WERE COLLECTED FROM COLLEGE SUPERVISORS, COOPERATING TEACHERS, AND STUDENT TEACHERS AND CATEGORIZED ACCORDING TO SPECIFIC BEHAVIORS, AND PROVIDED A BASIS FOR CONSTRUCTING A RATING SCALE FOR EVALUATING STUDENT TEACHING PERFORMANCE. THE CRITICAL…

The Levels of Use (LoU) interview has been developed to study implementation as a dynamic process. This paper focuses on the use of a mathematics skills monitoring system and reports how information collected during the typical LoU interview provided the data for assigning each teacher to a configuration or pattern of use of the monitoring system.…

This paper is one of a series presenting data from the Texas Teacher Effectiveness Project, a two-year observational study of second- and third-grade teachers who were consistent in producing student learning gains. The study was designed to identify relationships between teacher characteristics and student learning. Variables that were…

Techniques for using video tape for teacher observation are described. A form was devised for teachers to use as they observed replaying of tapes of their performance in an actual class situation. The form was divided into three charts. The first chart enabled the teachers to note teacher talk, student talk, and moments of silence or confusion.…

The purpose of this study was to observe and describe the teaching behavior and interaction patterns of four elementary school physical education teachers longitudinally. Each teacher was observed twice a day (AM and PM) for a period of 20 consecutive days, resulting in 40 observations per subject. The following conclusions were reached: (1)…

The effectiveness of students' modeling teacher behaviors as a means of bringing about desirable classroom decorum and skill achievement is discussed within the context of physical education classes. (JD)

Secondary teacher education programs were surveyed in order to determine: (1) How widespread is the use of microteaching? (2) Where is microteaching found within the programs? (3) How are selected operational features of microteaching used? (4) With what frequency are selected operational features used? It was found that the number of secondary…

This is the third in a series of four reports describing a study of 1,614 junior high school mathematics and English students and 69 of their teachers that was undertaken to discover the effects of different teaching behaviors on cognitive and affective student outcomes. This booklet contains a discussion of different types of direct observation…

Fifteen recognized leaders in the interpersonal relations area were asked to identify the interpersonal competencies that are related to the facilitations of learning processes for pupils, teachers, and teachers of teachers. Their reports were analyzed and a category system developed which would encompass four major dimensions: interpersonal…

Self reports of classroom behavior given by second- and third-qrade teachers in questionnaires are compared to process measures of the same behaviors collected by classroom observers visiting in these teachers' classrooms. The comparisons reveal a generalized pattern of poor accuracy on the part of the teachers, although there were some exceptions…

This study investigated the relationships between teacher facilitative or directive verbal behavior in nursery school classrooms and seven aspects of child language change. Twenty-eight nursery teachers and 95 children from these classrooms were selected for this study. The teacher verbal behavior was measured by the Withall Social Climate Index,…

This panel's goal was to develop the means to improve teachers' ability to perform general and specific skills of teaching within curriculum areas and student development levels. The panel focused on research to improve teacher performance of instructional skills and identified two basic approaches to this research. The first approach dealt with…