This paper focuses on the development of instruments to measure technology integration in learning environments. The model used as the basis for these instruments is the Technology Effectiveness Framework developed at the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory and described in "Designing Learning and Technology for Educational Reform" (B.…

The Vicarious Learning project is aimed at understanding the role of dialogue in learning about complex conceptual domains. The fundamental assumption of "vicarious learning" is that students can receive benefits from exposure to discussions among their peers and between students and tutors. To elicit dialogues that can be captured, F.…

Instructional supervision is the use of monitored service for preservice training. It is supervision of more experienced students in order to teach less experienced ones. As a pedagogy of counselor education, instructional supervision is supervisory because it monitors an actual client, and instructional because it uses supervision as a pedagogic…

A review of the critical literature provides a brief history of systematic observation of classroom behaviors, long valued as an important data collection method in educational research. Milestones in systematic observation of classrooms are traced back to 1914 and the development and use of the Special Strategies Observation System (SSOS) through…

The Behavior Problem Checklist was seen as a useful way to quantify teacher judgments of first and second grade hyperactive boys' classroom behavior. The activity recorder score and vigor of play ratings (independently obtained from an experimentally designed free-play setting) were seen as salient variables in the behavior judgments that their…

A conceptual model and unit of analysis were constructed to guide the systematic observation of the consequences of four modes of teacher verbal activity on the verbal performance of students. (Author)

Twelve educators were asked to predict the effectiveness of seven self-instructional arrangements of anthropological information from simple inspection of the programs. (Author)

Examined the nature of teacher responses to preschoolers' problem and preacademic behavior as a function of sex. Teachers generally responded more frequently to boys. (ST)

The single best predictor of maternal teaching, or child response, was ethnicity. Children in this study experienced different learning environments which may result in different skills and expectations brought by them into the classroom. (Authors)

Article describes method of teaching reading skills through the use of pictures. (MM)

Article reports results of a study on variations in student teachers' effectiveness with children from nursery through grade school. (Editor/SP)

Author describes 6 behavioral modes which constitute a transferable behavioral perspective from T Group Experiences. (Editor/MB)