This five-year study gathered data on 174 prospective teachers through personality tests, self-evaluation forms, and sound films of student teaching behavior, and examined the effects of three kinds of psychological feedback on teacher preparation, personality, and behavior. Subjects were divided into four groups--one for control and three for…

A test of competencies involved in "Science - A Process Approach" that appeared to measure the same behavior required by the American Assoc"ation for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) appraisal activities was constructed and formed the preliminary version of the Elementary Teachers' Science Inventory (ETSI). A criterion instrument…

Logical analysis of the purpose of teaching--to bring about appropriate changes in learners--should result in identification of the elements of teaching behavior which effects appropriate changes. These elements are the logical objectives for a program of teacher education and the criteria for assessing teacher effectiveness. By successively…

The focus of this paper is on the complex interaction between teacher behavior and learner outcomes and the search for associational and causal relationships between them. Both the results from research conducted in this area and the methodology used to conduct the studies are examined. Answers to the following questions are reported. What links…

Methods by which preservice physical education teachers use selected behaviors to promote handicapped student physical performance in planned skill activities are explored. The basic assumption investigated is that teacher behaviors when working with any child in physical education will have basic similarities. Discussion focuses on processes used…

Research on teaching, encompassing those judgments and actions of teaching that can affect the curriculum and instruction that learners encounter in school, is a necessity if public school personnel are to cope with the increased social pressures on the schools. Early empirical research in the field focused on teachers or learning, rather than on…

This paper examines the process by which teachers adapt their teaching behavior to their students, including (1) how adaptation is manifested spontaneously through implicit matching of students and teaching styles, (2) how implicit matching can be analyzed, (3) how models for matching teachers' approaches to different students can be described,…

Systematic observations of classroom behavior of both teachers and pupils are effective measures of process in education. Until a few years ago, the classroom process--what actually does and does not happen as a result of instituting a new program--went unmeasured for want of tools and techniques to do that job. In this article, examples of…

This module is designed to help the learner develop a present process of delivery for a learning activity developed by the Florida Parent Education model. The module begins with a prospectus that explains the purpose of the Florida Parent Education Model and the reason for creating this module. Four enabling objectives are included, each of which…

Seven schools in which pupil achievement was high were matched with seven schools in which pupil achievement was low. Nine teachers were selected for observation in each school; teachers filled out questionnaires, and principals were interviewed. Significant differences in favor of schools with high pupil achievement were found in teacher…

This volume consists of abridged reports of the 10 panels that participated in a five-day conference in Washington during the summer of 1974. The primary objective of the conferenc was to provide an agenda for further research and development to guide the National Institute of Education in its planning and funding over the next several years. Both…

Protocol materials are defined as records of human behavior in either (1) unaffected or (2) selected or simulated situations. In the first definition, instruction is centered on the results of an analysis of the situation. In the second, theoretical elements provide the basis for selecting or simulating the situation. In either case, the protocol…

The main purpose of this study was to develop a procedure whereby teachers might improve their interpersonal transactions with students. Concomitant purposes were to develop a limited category coding system for easy use by classroom teachers and to develop a classroom observation system for research purposes. Sixteen teachers (three primary, nine…

This study was undertaken to test the authenticity of an earlier study by Olmsted, Blackington, and Houston which devised a way of categorizing teachers according to their responses on a number of scales having to do with their attitudes about the profession. The previous study used 60 preservice teacher interns, mostly female, from Michigan State…

Variables that schools can not directly control are predictors of a significant portion of the achievement differences of children, yet some schools seem to be operating significantly better or worse than predicted in regard to pupil achievement. This observation study represents an effort to look more closely at schools in which actual pupil…