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Prasad, Sunita – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1994
An observational technique for assessing the social interaction skills of elementary age students with disabilities is described. The procedure focuses on three interaction elements: (1) initiating the interaction, (2) turn taking, and (3) responding to the interaction. The method of data recording and analysis is delineated. (DB)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Disabilities, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Cedersund, Elisabet; Svensson, Lennart G. – Language and Education, 1996
Describes a study of class assessment meetings in Swedish secondary schools, focusing on communicative practices in these meetings, how interactional patterns are reproduced by the participants in the meetings, and how these patterns are linked to the social organization of schools. Findings indicate that time constraints and a standardized agenda…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Decision Making, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Donahue, Mavis L.; Szymanski, Carol M.; Flores, Christine Wujek – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1999
Uses current research and theory to frame the peer interactions of "Emily Dickinson," a 16-year-old with oral-language problems and social isolation. Classroom-based assessment revealed an interaction pattern in which Emily used her strong literacy interests and skills to initiate and mediate social interaction with peers, including another gifted…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Creative Writing, Gifted Disabled
Brown, James C. – 1981
A course in communication skills that is provided to all freshmen dental students at the University of Mississippi School of Dentistry is described. The course is based primarily on the human relations training models of Blakeman (1975), Carkhuff (1969), and Egan (1975), and consists of six modules devoted to the skills of structuring, attending,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Communication Skills, Dental Schools, Higher Education
Churchill, Edith H. E.; Petner, Joseph N., Jr. – 1977
A one-year project to explore the use of children's language served as a basis for staff development through the North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation. Children's conversations among themselves were observed and recorded within the classroom setting, and the content of the observations were used for planning curriculum and assessing children's…
Descriptors: Child Language, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Curriculum Development
Jonker, Vera M.; Heim, Margriet J. M. – 1992
The Communicative Development of Toddlers with Cerebral Palsy (COCP) project developed an assessment-intervention program for non-speaking children with cerebral palsy. The goals of the project's Assessment-Intervention protocol are to teach the child to communicate in an appropriate, effective, and efficient way in different situations and with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cerebral Palsy, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Disorders
Armstrong, John D., Ed.; Store, Ron E., Ed. – 1980
Proceedings of a 1980 workshop in Queensland, Australia, on evaluation in distance teaching are presented. Two focal areas were the assessment of students and evaluation of programs and courses. In addition to keynote and workshop papers, a variety of evaluation forms are presented. Among the papers and authors are: "The Setting of Tertiary…
Descriptors: Assignments, Audiovisual Aids, College Instruction, Communication Problems