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Download full textDickmeyer, Scott G. – 1993
A study analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of the use of humor in the classroom. A longitudinal content analysis of presentational and classroom studies from 1941 to 1991 was conducted. Earlier studies were included if they had been cited five or more times within articles on humor in the classroom. Scholars have argued that humor: is a…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Communication Research
Kearney, Patricia; And Others – 1991
A study examined college students' resistance decisions in the classroom. Initial validation tests of the resistance typology developed by N. Burroghs, P. Kearney and T. Plax (1989) confirmed the existence of all 19 resistance categories. Further analyses indicated that the categories could be meaningfully reduced to two dimensions: Teacher-Owned…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
Marchant, Gregory J.; Newman, Isadore – 1991
The heads of the education divisions of 245 colleges and universities were surveyed regarding their opinions about faculty evaluation and reward procedures. Findings indicated that tenure received significantly more attention from decision-making bodies in the colleges than merit pay. Tenure was also viewed as having a greater effect on faculty…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Faculty, Decision Making, Faculty Evaluation
Sperling, Melanie – 1991
A study examined autobiographical narratives written by preservice English teachers who described their new experiences in student teaching. Subjects, 18 young men and women enrolled in a one-year combination teaching credential and masters degree program at Stanford University, described in writing a major classroom experience. Fourteen of the 18…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, English Instruction, Higher Education, Intermediate Grades
Hong, Zhang; Smith, Carl, Comp. – 1990
Originally developed for the Department of Defense Schools (DoDDS) system, this learning package on developing oral language is designed for teachers who wish to upgrade or expand their teaching skills on their own. The package includes a comprehensive search of the ERIC database; a lecture giving an overview on the topic; the full text of several…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Creative Dramatics, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Moore, JoAnne E. – 1984
Detroit's Peer Teachers as Mirrors and Monitors Project is intended to validate cost effective methods for increasing Academic Learning Time (ALT) for students in grades one through four. A major problem in this research effort has been the design of valid and reliable measures of the components of ALT. One very important component of ALT is…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Collection, Interrater Reliability
Halasz, Ida M.; Behm, Karen S. – 1983
A study was conducted to determine how 11,400 minutes were spent by 186 students in 10 classes in three secondary vocational education program areas (agricultural education, marketing and distributive education, and trade and industrial education) in seven high schools and area vocational schools in four states. The study attempted to find out how…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Distributive Education, Marketing, Secondary Education
Long, Donna Reseigh – 1983
A study of beginning college Spanish students' time-on-task in the foreign language classroom is reported. First, appropriate student on-task behaviors were determined, and teacher behaviors influencing or associated with student on-task behavior were defined. An observational instrument for recording and correlating student and teacher behaviors…
Descriptors: College Students, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Intensive Language Courses
Driscoll, Amy – 1984
In 1983, the National Institute of Education funded the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development to conduct a study, Applying Research to Teacher Education (ARTE) Research Utilization in Elementary Teacher Education (RUETE). The ARTE:RUETE study's purpose is to develop preservice instruction incorporating current research…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Educational Research, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education
The Effect of an Observation Instrument on Student Teacher Performance of Active Teaching Behaviors.
Johns, Kenneth W.; Gee, Elsie W. – 1984
An investigation was made to determine the effect of an observation instrument on student teacher performance of Active Teaching Behaviors (ATB) focusing on how the teacher introduces, carries out, and concludes classroom instruction, and how the teacher maintains student engagement. Cooperating teachers were observed teaching mathematics and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperating Teachers, Educational Research, Elementary School Teachers
Griffin, Gary A.; And Others – 1983
A pilot study attempted to develop a link between research findings and potential users of those findings. A school-based intervention, Changing Teacher Practice (CTP), was developed to teach school leaders, principals, and resource leaders what research has discovered to be effective teaching and effective staff development. CTP was designed to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques
Putnam, Joyce G. – 1984
This paper reports the case study of a classroom teacher who made systematic and conscious preactive and interactive decisions. Four questions guided the research. The primary question was "Does a teacher use a systematic decision model?" The three secondary questions were: (1) Does this teacher make preactive and interactive decisions?…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Education
Darr, Ralph F., Jr. – 1990
This paper focuses primarily on the more prominent teacher characteristics research published in the latter half of the 1980s. Literature on the characteristics of elementary, secondary, and college-level teachers is reviewed. Demographic data suggest that today's public school teachers are older and more experienced, and have more years of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction
Reed, Thomas M.; And Others – 1987
The Computerized Observation System (COS) is a software program which an observer can use with a portable microcomputer to document preservice and inservice teacher performance. Specific observable behavior such as appropriate questions and responses shown to increase student achievement are recorded as Low Inference Observation Measures. Time on…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Computer Software
Olstad, Roger G.; And Others – 1983
Two studies sought to identify variables that might predict relative success in student teaching performance. University supervisors ranked program graduates on overall student teaching success after they had successfully completed all mastery criteria. The first study compared students on achievement test scores, grade point average (GPA), and…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Evaluation Criteria, Grade Point Average, Higher Education
