Discusses interaction analysis, a procedure for objectively recording and analyzing the verbal interchange between instructors and students, which can aid instructors in setting goals for improving their instruction. Specific topics covered include instructor behavior when working with students, a process for objectively analyzing teacher…

The author discusses the methodology underlying the national survey, Primary Education in England, and the way data are presented. He finds much to commend and some things to criticize. (Editor/SJL)

Examines peer group support among Soviet day care children. Fifty-six boys and 59 girls (16 to 37 months of age) from a Moscow nursery school were observed with or without a stranger present in one of three conditions: with a familiar peer, with an unfamiliar peer, or with no peer. (CM)

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

Uses the reports of senior students as a criterion in examining the hypothesis that reports that teachers present on their classroom behavior suffer from bias. Concludes that the extent of the bias is not great. (Author/IRT)

In this study previously unacquainted two-year-olds formed a group structure coincident with a stabilization of social relations. The children's formation of a dominance hierarchy for object conflicts, reflected in part by an increasing group structural rigidity, was marked by a decrease in the likelihood of resistance to aggression. (Author/DB)

Presents an outline for procedures to be followed in order to insure the successful outcome of a class field trip in science. The outline provides a framework within which hesitant teachers can feel comfortable about taking children into the outdoors. (Author/JC)

Reports on the implementation of an adolescent group psychotherapy process. (RH)

Assessed the relation between four- and five-year-olds' prosocial behavior and empathy with a modified version of the Feshbach empathy measure. Prosocial behaviors were assessed naturalistically over 10 weeks. (Author/SS)

Subjects categorized as either players who displayed make-believe in natural free-play situations or nonplayers whose behavioral repertoires did not include make-believe, were exposed to either a free-play, an imitation or a problem-solving condition and given an alternate-uses test. Free-play enhanced associative fluency among players who engaged…

Principles of appropriateness and acceptability are discussed for research-based data gathering instruments and those designed by supervisor and student in order to understand and evaluate student teaching. Ten guidelines are given to provide supervisors with a basis for observing and analyzing the teaching process. (JD)

Peer observation activities conducted by college faculty working collaboratively have the potential to improve instruction. (JD)

The relationship between sensitive maternal behavior and mother-infant vocalization during feedings was examined in an effort to determine this situational meaning of Ainsworth's concept of sensitivity. (Author/DB)

Causes of evaluator bias are: overemphasizing concrete, salient, and retrievable information; reporting only evidence which confirms hypothesis; focusing on stable personality factors, rather than on situation and environment; developing positive perceptions of a program as both an evaluator and a highly involved participant; statistical naivete;…