Classroom research projects are useful as a student learning activity and as a way of helping students learn critical examination. (MB)

Investigates the relationships among classroom organizational features, teacher characteristics, and classroom activities in 32 urban Mexican preschools. Suggests that complex interactions among these variables determine school quality. Includes 13 references. (SV)

Wait time is the duration of pauses separating utterances during a verbal exchange. Paper reviews studies that involve wait time in a range of subject areas and grade levels. Wait time appears to foster higher cognitive level learning by giving teachers and students more time to think. (RB)

The strengths and weaknesses of both the qualitative and quantitative approaches to classroom research are examined. The qualitative approach, with some modification of objectives and reporting, is recommended as essential to cross-cultural classroom research. Interdisciplinary team research is also advocated. (MSE)

Describes how a group of language arts teachers established a year-long research project in collaboration with a university, and how, through participation in the project, they transformed their teaching, became more active professionally, and became critical, responsive users of current research. (ARH)

Reviews Berstein's and Atkinson's position that there is a radical discontinuity between the modes of communication which predominate in schools and those to which many students are accustomed. Questions Berstein's assumption that school language "codes" can be openly challenged by pupils who wish to alter a body of received knowledge.…

A follow-up study of the Kensington Elementary School (studied for educational innovations 15 years earlier) used ethnography, life history interviews of original faculty, and historical study of the school district to examine school identity. (CB)

Recent research on effective teaching is used to critique the performance of U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett as he taught a lesson on Federalist Paper No. 10 to high school juniors. (MT)

Teachers should familiarize themselves with the practical advantages of single-subject methodology in attempting to meet the various learning needs of hearing-impaired students. Two examples are provided to illustrate how these designs can act as tools for deciding which of several teaching methods are most beneficial to particular students.…

A study of 11 Wisconsin elementary schools determined: (1) how much whole group time occurred in each grade level within all the schools; (2) the impact of pullouts (students withdrawn from their self-contained classrooms) on whole group instructional time; and (3) areas of the curriculum most affected by pullouts. (MLF)

Introduces a new column that will tell about research being conducted in the classroom. (EL)

Argues that a process/product distinction is an important one to make when evaluating English as a second language programs. Compares this distinction to that between formative and summative evaluation as described by Scriven in 1967, noting that the two reflect different, not competing, perspectives. Outlines the role of classroom-centered…

Argues that teachers can find solutions to problems and answers to questions by conducting their own classroom inquiries and explorations. Discusses four types of classroom research in which teachers can engage: "test-teach-retest,""survey,""observation," and "looking into the past." (EL)

This article examines major trends in research on the teaching process, emphasizing two models for studying classroom interactions--process-product and descriptive. Also discussed is interpersonal interaction as it is studied in social psychology. (CB)

Something significant can be learned by "listening-in" on children's conversations. Research has shown individual differences among students that may affect children's achievement. Teachers need to "listen-in" on children's conversations and "listen-for" what children are saying about how well they understand directions and activities. (CB)