Self-concepts of teachers and student teachers have been found to predict certain specific teaching behaviors. This study explored these possible relationships in the microteaching setting. Self-Report Inventory and OScAR measures were obtained on 51 students, all secondary teacher candidates. Correctional and ANOVA procedures yielded only a few…

This document is a summation of four years of work at the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education in Austin, Texas. The basic aims of this center are to research the effect of teacher education on teaching behavior, to research the effect of such teaching behavior on relevant aspects of child learning, and to develop a teacher…

A three-level model was derived from the literature on motivation and behavior change processes and from specific research on teacher concerns and self-confrontation. Teacher concerns comprise the first level of the model: concerns about self, task, and pupils. Self-confrontation feedback and behavior change procedures comprise the second level:…

As one phase of a research program on teacher effectiveness, five studies were completed which sought procedures for aiding teachers in the acquisition and expression of hypothetico-deductive verbal structuring through microteaching. Hypothetico-deductive verbal behaviors have been found to be related to desirable pupil outcomes. The evidence…

This study proposed to intervene systematically on teacher and pupil population with interpersonal skill training. The program was designed to provide opportunities for teachers to examine their own classroom behavior, and to provide children with social skill training. The inservice teacher training, utilizing an examination of on-site video…

This textbook, designed to be used in teacher preparation courses focuses on observation of students and the role it plays in instructional decision making. The first chapter discusses the necessity of observation of students in the learning environment. Chapter two identifies the general principles, procedures, and problems applicable to all…

In a single questionnaire, students reported their ideal frequency of occurrence (I-scores) for common teaching behaviors, the observed frequency of occurrence (0-scores), their evaluation of an "outstanding" to "poor" scale for each behavior expressed as a teaching attribute (E-score), and their overall evaluation of the…

This report describes the development and contents of a computerized catalog of teacher training products. The catalog was compiled by the staff of the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching (SCRDT) Program on Teaching Effectiveness as part of an effort to develop a systematic teacher training model. A 117-item product…

This study investigated the observable changes, if any, of 58 elementary education student teachers following completion of field experience programs. Behavior rating forms were completed by the prospective kindergarten to sixth grade teachers, the public school cooperating teachers, the university supervisors, and a control group of 35 non-field…

This research study was intended as a basis for developing a device to measure college classroom teaching effectiveness. A review of some of the literature indicated that most past efforts to evaluate college teaching had used some sort of rating form and the results were quite ambiguous. However, 3 studies using the critical incident technique…

A study attempted to improve the results of correlating personality characteristics with teaching behavior within the setting of a microteaching laboratory. Self-theory constructs were used to predict teaching behavior. Subjects (80 education students) were administered the Self-Report Inventory (SRI) and the Adjective Rating Scale for Self…

Three premises underlie the practice of microteaching: that much of teaching consists of behaviors, that the total performance can be broken into smaller pieces of behavior with little consideration given to the relationship between these parts, and that of a teaching performance can be usefully analyzed without consideration of what precedes or…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of training teachers in the use of strategies for content development through classroom communication behaviors, to determine the discriminatory power of the Content Analysis System, and to describe some of the relationships of content development characteristics and interaction…

Organizational conflict theory asserts that when organizational homeostasis becomes unbalanced, the participants in the conflict should communicate more. To test this assertion, the average total frequency of principal-teacher oral and written communications over an identical 20-day period were correlated with two empirically-determined…

This study examines the relationship between two measures of inquiry-verbal communication: The Science Classroom Activities Checklist (SCAC) and a modified form of the Parakh System of Interaction Analysis. The sample for this study consisted of ten randomly selected classrooms: three ninth-grade general science classrooms, six ninth-grade earth…