This document presents the development of instructional specification (IS), a strategy designed to assist in moving systematically from the statement of desired outcomes to the point that sufficient cues are available to initiate the development of instructional materials and procedures. Five sections which can serve as a blueprint for developing…

In order to determine the relationship between economic concerns and teachers' reasons for leaving a position, this study investigated several economic concerns, postulated to be related to teacher withdrawal. The rationale for study assumed that withdrawal from a teaching position is determined by four economic, or wage criteria including cost of…

This study dealt with a group of teachers in one particular untraditional school, Bright Meadows (fictitious name), and surveyed their responses, feelings, reactions to ideology, the environment and the events which constitute the school as a social institution. Data were gathered by means of a series of interviews based on peoples' memories; no…

This report evaluates changes in teacher behavior resulting from a one-week orientation program. Teachers at School A attended an orientation program which stressed the problems of working with inner-city children and the resource personnel available to help them. Teachers from School B, a second inner-city school without an in-service program…

This study was based on the hypothesis that involvement in the dialogue of a lesson may increase students' opportunities to understand the concepts being discussed and may enlarge the teacher's opportunities to diagnose and respond to students' learning problems. Sixty teachers from the Stanford University Secondary Teacher Education Program…

This study examines the relationship between organizational demands and secondary school teachers' behavior. Teachers develop various techniques to compensate for the dictates of the organization; survival techniques are ways to tolerate the organization without leaving it. This study was carried out in two New England secondary schools in a…

Classroom behaviors of 24 primary reading teachers whose students averaged 1.27 academic years gain per 8 months instruction over the past 3-5 years were observed. Results indicated that, while many of the demonstrated behaviors adhered to advocated practices, several of their behaviors have been strongly criticized in the literature. (Author/NQ)

Students appear to leave the university with intentions to utilize the measurement and evaluation techniques that were presented, yet somehow utilization is not really achieved. (MM)

An approach to classroom observation assignments in teacher education programs is described which focuses on recording a systematic, objective record. (DS)

Competency-based programs offer positive refinement in instructional design, implementation, and evaluation, but a number of unresolved problems offer new challenges and concerns to those teaching educational psychology. (JD)

Attempts to evaluate the influence of homosexual teachers on their students and compares the behavior of the homosexual teacher with that of the heterosexual teacher. (RK)

The great challenge for teacher education is to develop laboratory experiences that make the teacher education student more realistic about classroom teachers' group norms and the school bureaucracy without simultaneously damaging high expectations and ideals. (JD)

Teacher centers are defined and discussed as important components of secondary school teacher renewal. (MM)

Parsons (1964) believed that children were prepared for legitimate social life in classrooms and that the playground was the nursery of crime. This theory is challenged with the view that deviance is learned in classrooms rather than playgrounds. Students' accounts of order and disorder in school are given and contrasted with behavior created by…

The hypothesis that student perceptions of experimentally manipulated teacher structuring, soliciting, and reacting behaviors would mediate the effects of those teacher variables on student achievement was found true for structuring and reacting but not for soliciting. (MJB)