Presents data using an observational technique, APPROACH, which describes the behaviors of young children in naturalistic social situations. (WY)

"This article is a summary report of efforts to study teachers in existing school systems as a prelude to formulating one or more role models of teacher behaviors for individualized instruction. (Authors)

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to investigate and analyze the teaching procedures of two groups of elementary science teachers. Observations of science lessons taught by 15 SCIS-trained teachers and 15 non-SCIS-trained teachers revealed significant differences in the number of "science experiences …

Presents the procedures, results, and implications of a study designed to (1) develop a reliable category system and method of encoding biology teacher behaviors and (2) use the developed category system and the method of encoding to obtain an objective description of the classroom behaviors of biology teachers. (LC)

Traditional analysis of school learning or behavior problems does not seem to lead to meaningful educational recommendations. A model for assessment is prescribed wherein individual testing might prove more productive and which ultimately presents the school psychologist as a specialist in education and an observer in situ. (Author)

Sixteen mothers, fathers, and their four- to seven-year- old children (eight with Down's syndrome [DS], eight without disabilities) were observed interacting in their homes during three family groupings: (1) mother and child, (2) father and child, and (3) mother, father, and child. (Author/MCD)

Examined couples' and observers' perspectives of marital interaction. Nondistressed (N=10) and distressed (N=6) couples and objective observers (N=10) evaluated couples' interactional behaviors. Spouses' ratings of their partners' behavior were not consistent with observers' ratings of partners' behaviors but were consistent with observers'…

Skills necessary for scientific study that correspond to the cognitive development of the elementary age child, and specifically the gifted student, are discussed. Attention is directed to observation, problem finding and question asking, seeing relationships, note taking, sustaining interest and perseverance, and hypothesizing. (SEW)

Participant-observation was used to evaluate the social behavior of 20 visually handicapped juniors and seniors in a residential school for the blind. Analysis revealed that the behavior observed was fairly typical of social behavior expected by sighted adolescents in any school setting. (Author/SW)