The misbehavior of children often presents a severe problem to the classroom teacher. An attempt is reported here to eliminate such misbehavior by strengthening a competing and educationally relevant class of behavior, namely academic performance. A classroom was sleected in an urban school which included children with the most severe behavior…

Discussed in this paper is how a multi-faceted research strategy was used to investigate the interacting forces existing in open classrooms. Using behavioral mapping, a standardized naturalistic time-sampling technique for quantifying and describing behavior patterns and use of physical space, day long observations of individual children and…

Fifty-eight undergraduates took part in an experiment evaluating a full-spectrum light closely approximating natural sunlight and a cool-white fluorescent light commonly used in institutional settings. Four classes of a single teaching assistant were used and each class was compared against itself under different lighting conditions. Data were…

The authors' experiences in using three different approaches to the study and documentation of processes used in the Experience-Based Career Education model are reported. The approaches used were: ethnography, systematic observation of student behavior in natural settings, and in-depth student interviews. (Author/BP)

The reliabilities of various observational measures were determined, and the influence of both the number and the length of the observation periods on reliability was examined, both separately and jointly. A single simplifying assumption leads to a variant of the Spearman-Brown formula, which may have wider application. (Author/CTM)

Presents a philosophy for long term continuous observation of young children in order to study this intellectual development. A one year study of a class of 32 eight-and nine-year-old students was conducted. (SL)

Describes a process used for training prospective teachers to gain some initial skill in the observation of children. (JMB)

A teacher evaluation system used at a special school for the gifted promotes teacher involvement through self study, peer observation, team critique, and administrator observation and critique. Four teacher types as defined by level of commitment and abstraction ability have different supervisory needs. (Author/DB)

The article describes Systematic Screening for Behavior Disorders (SSBD), a screening procedure for identifying elementary students at risk for serious behavior disorders. Teacher judgment is the primary information source for the first two screening stages and direct behavioral observations for the third. Results of a year-long SSBD study are…

The author visited an elementary school in the Netherlands and found that enthusiasm for learning, patience with children's progress, spontaneity in response to children's interest, and the use of drama are recurring patterns in the classrooms of preschoolers. (Author/LHW)

Provides a summary and analysis of the content of "Readings on Interaction in the Classroom" (Delamont, 1984). Concludes that this book makes an important contribution by bridging the gap between social scientists and educational practitioners. (JDH)

A review of research shows that, while supervisory job prescriptions focus on classroom observation for the purpose of improvement of instruction, job descriptions differ from the prescription and there is a gap between the classroom supervision that occurs and the supervision prescribed in the literature. (FL)

An English methods student personally reflects back on 10 days of preteaching laboratory experience in a secondary school English classroom. (HOD)

Since thinking is most often performed in problem-solving situations, teachers can become observers by providing situations in which students can practice and demonstrate intelligent behaviors. Some indicators include: perseverance, precision of language, problem finding, decreased impulsivity, metacognition, checking for accuracy, transference,…

Examines the immediate and long term effects of sociometric testing on preschool children's peer interactions. Positive and negative nomination as well as rating-scale sociometric measures were administered individually to children from two preschool classrooms, and behavioral observations of peer interactions were conducted before, after, and…