The paper explicates the rationale underlying the coding system, describes the classroom interaction variables subsumed within it, and discusses the special research and consultative advantages offered by this system. (Author)

A method of interaction analysis in which the individual student is the unit of analysis in classroom studies is needed to complement traditional studies treating the class as the unit. Such a method would add information concerning intra-class variation in teacher-pupil interaction patterns. Treatment of the studied are properly conceptualized as…

The author argues that "to answer certain research questions the individual student (rather than the classroom) is the proper unit of analysis." Appended are approximately 38 references. (Author/AK)

This book is about the kinds of individual differences in students that make differential impressions on teachers, the ways that such differential impressions lead teachers to form differential attitudes and expectations regarding different students, and the ways that these differential teacher attitudes and expectations begin to affect…