The purpose of this study was to analyze interaction in individualized instruction and to compare this with interaction in a regular classroom. A class of sixth grade pupils was video taped for a week during mathematics, social studies, and science lessons, and the tapes were analyzed using a modification of Bellack's coding system. Compared to…

The Infant-Infant Contact Code, developed to observe the social behavior in infants, is described. Results from using this scale with nine infants under nine months indicated that contacts between infants are complex in nature, that there are developmental changes in models of encounter, and that babies take different roles in relation to the…

The purpose of the 1968-69 investigation was to determine the applicability of a curriculum evaluation model to investigate high school students' achievement in three physics courses (traditional physics, Physical Science Study Curriculum, and Harvard Project Physics). Three tests were used to measure student progress: The Dunning-Abeles Physics…

Based on the assumption that the conduct of an effective supervisory conference is analogous to effective teaching and that the assumptions made about effective teaching behaviors can also be made about supervisory behaviors, this paper develops and describes in detail a ten-category observation system for supervisory conferences, similar to the…

The Guided Self-Analysis System for Professional Development (GSA) has been designed to assist practicing classroom teachers in their efforts toward self-improvement. The system consists of several programs of carefully sequenced interaction codes with which the teacher analyzes a videotape made in his own classroom and comes to a more objective…

Nineteen beginning preservice science teachers were randomly assigned to one of the following treatments given in the first two weeks of the semester: a) training in interaction analysis (a modification of Hall's instrument for the analysis of science teaching; b) training in conducting and interpreting Piaget-type interviews; and c) a control…

This study focused on the Instructor-Group Interaction Scale, formulated by Hildebrand, Wilson, and Dienst (1971), to explore the feasibility and usefulness of an instrument for recording instructor-group interaction in the college classroom. It was hypothesized that data from the scale would (a) provide the instructor with the pattern of…

In comparing the pretest-posttest scores of student teachers, it was discovered that the group which had been exposed to the Flanders Interaction Analysis significantly increased their self-concept scores, whereas the control group not so treated did not. This result occurred whether the instrument measured self concept of the individual or self…

Studies of the interactions within the Carroll model of learning, in which degree of learning is considered a function of the ratio of time spent to time needed, are described and evaluated. Evidence in previous research, which focused on the interaction of quality of instruction and ability to understand instruction on degree of learning, time…

Three appendixes, B, C, and D, to an article titled "A Process Analysis of Nonprofessional Intervention with Children," are manuals for the use of Process Activity Forms and for Referral Category Rating, including instructions and examples of both and Derivation of Aide Characteristic Factor Scores. (LH)

The manual, designed particularly for work with acting-out or behavior problem students, describes coding procedures used in the observation of continuous classroom interactions between the student and his peers and teacher. Peer and/or teacher behaviors antecedent and consequent to the subject's behavior are identified in the coding process,…

Prepared in response to a Department of the Interior request, this report is a comprehensive study of environmental conservation problems as they relate to or have impact on the petroleum industry. It contains the general comments and conclusions of The National Petroleum Council based on an analysis of detailed data. For presentation of key…

The fundamental differences in classroom social structure and the effect of teaching behavior on the unique patterns of classroom social structures were studied. Subjects included fifth-grade classrooms with female teachers in a small city school system. Eighteen classrooms with a total of 576 children fit these criteria. Instrumentation included…

To study the effect of democratic and autocratic leadership styles upon the commitment and productivity of voluntary adult groups, eight tenant councils, composed of approximately six persons each, were selected to serve as experimental groups. Trained researchers acting as discussion leaders for each council functioned as either democratic or…

THIS RESEARCH ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF SELF-CONCEPT OF ABILITY TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL WAS BASED ON THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK COMMONLY IDENTIFIED AS THE SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONAL THEORY OF BEHAVIOR. THE BASIC POSTULATE WAS THAT ACADEMIC BEHAVIOR OR SCHOOL LEARNING IS LIMITED BY THE STUDENT'S SELF-CONCEPT OF HIS ABILITY, AND THAT…