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Greyling, Willfred J. – 1995
A study examined global- and local-allocational preselection mechanisms for turn-taking in the language classroom, using two corpuses of classroom discourse illustrating both accuracy- and fluency-based modes of language teaching. It was found that teacher-directed accuracy work yielded Initiation-Response-Feedback patterns governed by…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Holmes, Glen A. – 1997
Effective classroom simulations can provide opportunities for end-users to analyze human teaching and learning behaviors and can also help prepare teachers for real-world experiences. This paper proposes a simulation project based on an aggregation of ideas associated with knowledge-based simulations, behavior observations, visualization, and the…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Computer Simulation, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer System Design
Lott, Bernice, Ed.; Reilly, Mary Ellen, Ed. – 1996
This book presents 18 papers on issues in sexual harassment within the higher education setting. It notes that only within the past two decades have sexual harassment and related subjects begun to be openly discussed, investigated, and become the formal concern of government, business, and education. Papers include: (1) "Issues and Questions"…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, College Faculty, College Students, Compliance (Legal)
Moallem, Mahnaz; And Others – 1994
This study was designed to explore an experienced teacher's thinking and teaching within the social and cultural environment of the classroom. It investigated the thinking, planning, subsequent action and reflection processes and relationships in a real situation of learning. A naturalistic approach was used to investigate the socio-cultural…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, Cultural Context
Louisville Univ., KY. School of Education. – 1987
The University of Louisville conducted a study to determine participants' knowledge of what constitutes sex bias and their ability to recognize situations in which biased behavior is exhibited. The University's Department of Occupational Education sponsored a 10-hour workshop to train vocational educators in methods of incorporating sex fair…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Classroom Techniques, Inservice Teacher Education
Little, Judith Warren; Threatt, Susan M. – 1992
As experienced by vocational teachers in five California comprehensive high schools, the peripheral nature of vocational education results from two dimensions of school context. First, the purposes and priorities of these comprehensive high schools tend to be ordered in ways that concentrate symbolic acclaim and material resources on academic…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Objectives, Enrollment, High Schools
Smith, Michael S. – 1992
Six student teachers who were committed to the tenets of whole language were studied to determine how they manifested their whole language perspectives in light of the enabling and constraining factors they faced in their specific field sites. Results indicated that the six student teachers were forced to alter their teaching behaviors…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Context Effect, Cultural Background, Elementary Education
Horan, Michael – 1991
The findings of numerous empirically based research studies reflecting the views of teachers, students, and administrators can be used to identify a "core of techniques" associated with effective community college teachers. Community college teaching is generally more student-centered than four-year college instruction, with the choice of teaching…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty
Kleiman, Angela B. – 1990
A discussion of classroom communication looks at the function of questions, particularly teacher-initiated pedagogical questions but also other classroom questions, either teacher- or student-initiated. Two fourth grade science lessons, conducted in Brazil by different teachers, are analyzed. Analysis focuses on the relative effects of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Elementary School Science, Foreign Countries
Gahala, Estella M. – 1986
Producing a high level of student involvement in the foreign language classroom depends on four common elements under the teacher's control: (1) teacher expectations and their modeling in class; (2) classroom atmosphere; (3) instructional formats; and (4) teaching activities. Students are more consistently involved in using the target language in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Hatch, J. Amos; Bondy, Elizabeth – 1983
Two combined second and third grade classrooms were observed throughout the five weeks of a summer school program to determine what "reading instruction" was in the contextual reality of classroom life. Observers viewed approximately 20 hours of reading instruction per week. In addition, they interviewed the classroom teachers informally as the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques
Blosser, Patricia E., Ed.; Mayer, Victor J., Ed. – Investigations in Science Education, 1983
Abstractor's analyses of 15 science education research studies are presented in three sections. The nine analyses in the first section focus on studies dealing with preservice and inservice teacher education. Areas investigated in these studies include: effectiveness of some inservice practices; teachers' perceptions of the importance of some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Science
Sunderland, Jane – 1990
This paper is concerned with the different ways that gender is represented in the English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classroom, and how this representation may contribute to the socialization of female language learners. Attention is focused primarily on the language teacher's understanding and awareness of gender representations, not to specific…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Environment, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Ashton, Patricia T.; And Others – 1983
A conceptual framework for the study of teachers' sense of efficacy was used to determine the extent to which teachers believed they could influence student learning. The framework was based on an extensive review of research literature on teaching, an ethnographic comparison of 2 organizationally different middle schools, and a process-product…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
Ashton, Patricia T.; And Others – 1982
This document reports on the Teacher Efficacy Study, an investigation of teachers' sense of efficacy and the extent to which teachers believe that they can have a positive effect on student learning and achievement. Chapters discuss: (1) overview of the Teacher Efficacy Study; (2) the conceptual framework used for the investigation; (3) the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
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