If teacher training and certification is to be competency based, those competencies will need to be very carefully described. The author contends that in days to come classroom management will be crucial. (Author)

Teachers who are classified as humanistic'' were perceived by students as using different teaching styles than those classified as custodial.'' The humanistic'' teachers tended to be perceived as using techniques more compatible with the recommendations of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study writers. (AL)

Data supporting the effectiveness of requesting student verbal responses to specific situations during lectures are presented and discussed. (AL)

The hypothesis that a link exists between a female teacher's sex-role ideology and her expression of sexuality in the classroom was tested. The classroom behavior of three female high school teachers, with traditional, ambivalent, and androgenous sex-role ideologies, was studied using ethnographic observation methods. (AM)

Studies of preschool indicate that: (1) valid and reliable measures of the environment are possible; (2) environments vary across programs; and (3) there is a relationship between the environment and development of children in those environments. The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale shows promise for both research and training. (Author/LC)

Argues that if schools are to be made more effective, educators must understand the interaction between their academic and socialization functions, as well as comprehend what happens in schools and the societal context in which schools are embedded. (MP)

Investigates the effects of one teacher's structuring and reacting behaviors on 53 second graders' learning of factual materials. Four treatment groups were established: high structuring and high reacting, high structuring and low reacting, low structuring and high reacting, and low structuring and low reacting. (RH)

Transcripts of a videotape of sixth-grade pupils in their classroom, both before and after class begins, show how the pupils cue in to the order that their new teacher desires. The pupils assist their teacher in the elaboration of the order of their classroom. (Author/RM)

Discusses the findings of 13 sequential studies done by Project Zero on children's sensitivity to artistic styles. Research indicated that there is a developmental sequence in artistic perception. Young children could learn to identify artistic styles but often had difficulty connecting the original paintings with small reproductions used in…

The contention that classroom design influences impression formation has not been empirically tested. The purpose of this article is to bring to the attention of educational psychologists the possibilities for research in this area. The paper summarizes the findings of some initial investigations and suggests directions for future study.…

Cites materials in the ERIC system concerning research on classroom communication and its implications, and notes some of the problems with that research. (HTH)

The major implication of work in investigating language and schooling is that teachers need to be more aware of the ways language is used in their classrooms. (RL)

Glass and Smith's (EJ 207 324) conclusion supporting small class size may be true, but it is not supported by their evidence. Their analysis does not recognize intervening factors and varying class sizes. (CP)

Reviews the benefits and limitations of fieldwork which the authors characterize as the most distinctly human methodology of the social sciences. (Part of a theme issue entitled "Anthropology of Education: Methods and Applications.") (SJL)