The Work Group on Behavior Modification in Education, which issued this report, was authorized by Secretary Elliot Richardson on November 21, 1970. The body of this report includes an analysis of the benefits of behavior modification techniques in education, examples of their successful application with a variety of large student populations, an…

Paper presented at a regional convention of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 1971. Described is some of the recent literature in classroom communication analysis based on fundamental cognitive processes. A logical analysis of teaching and teacher verbal behavior is presented. Included is a description of…

The Guided Self-Analysis System for Professional Development (GSA) has been designed to assist practicing classroom teachers in their efforts toward self-improvement. The system consists of several programs of carefully sequenced interaction codes with which the teacher analyzes a videotape made in his own classroom and comes to a more objective…

To begin this profile of California community college faculty, the following characteristics of the colleges themselves are described: setting, size, organization, governance, and location. The following faculty characteristics are discussed: number, sex, personal factors, marital status, educational level, experience, parents, educational…

This comparative study of inner city with non-inner city teacher behaviors represents an initial attempt at a comparative analysis of two teaching models, and provides a means of identifying like and different behaviors. Descriptions of teaching acts occurring in inner city schools were obtained and independent judgments were made about the…

A study explored the influence of two variables, 1) experience in viewing one's own classroom behavior through video tape and 2) training in the analysis of teaching behavior, on the self evaluation of student teachers. Subjects were 66 student teachers assigned to three groups: group 1 receiving 48 hours of training in analysis of teaching…

This report reviews the results of some 35 studies completed between 1956 and 1970 which attempted to relate systematically observed teaching behaviors to adjusted measures of student achievement. Information in each study includes investigator, date, population, time, tests used, and significant and non-significant results. The studies are…

This report briefly reviews research on teacher effectiveness and presents the conclusions of a 2-day conference held in October 1969 to consider issues related to the assessment of teacher effectiveness and make recommendations to the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) regarding the encouragement of research in this area. The committee concluded…

In the study reported here, teachers were given a 5th grade student's report card to which was attached a photo of either an attractive boy, an unattractive boy, an attractive girl, or an unattractive girl. Teachers completed an opinion sheet indicating their best estimate of: (1) the child's IQ; (2) his peer relationships; (3) the parents'…

This study focused on the Instructor-Group Interaction Scale, formulated by Hildebrand, Wilson, and Dienst (1971), to explore the feasibility and usefulness of an instrument for recording instructor-group interaction in the college classroom. It was hypothesized that data from the scale would (a) provide the instructor with the pattern of…

The second of an expected series of reports on studies designed to analyze the effects of the installation of a curriculum system in a school district upon the curriculum attitudes and self-perceptions of teachers in that district is presented. The system of curriculum engineering involves all school district personnel in curriculum planning and…

The purpose of this study was to determine what variables among a selected number of teacher characteristics and teacher perceptions of school environment contribute to the successful installation of Science - A Process Approach (SAPA). Success in installation was determined by the number of exercises used and by proficiency on SAPA Competency…

This is the fourth report of the Commission on Public School Personnel Policies in Ohio to educators and the general public. The report is based on a survey of school superintendents, principals, teachers, and personnel directors in over 50 districts throughout the state. The report focuses on the need for teacher evaluation and the actions…

The objectives of this study are twofold: a) measuring students' expressive engagement levels while increasing the teachers' use of two teaching strategies, Personalizing the Task (PT) and Recognizing Individual Achievement (RIA); and b) testing the use of observation, feedback, and training as a practical model for changing teacher behavior.…

Social learning theory is the theory that is applied through microteaching. The two critical sets of social learning variables mediated through microteaching are those associated with modeling and feedback. Microteaching is also a way of bringing specific teaching responses under experimental and behavioral control. Thus in each microteaching…