Educational research is seen as distinctive when knowledge claims are set in the context of education so that the relations between educative event, assertion, and evidence is clear. (Author)

This article illustrates several techniques to assist teachers in objectively evaluating what is going on in their classroom. (Author)

With an example of OScAR 5V records from four seventh-grade classrooms, this article illustrates the fact that conclusions in any study depend on decision-making processes. Careful examination of the decision-making process is suggested since resulting judgments and implications are rarely scrutinized. (CK)

The Automatic Interaction Detection program was devised to manipulate the data so that projections could be made from sample data for school improvement. A test of this technique was made on data from 4,287 classroom observations in the elementary and secondary levels of a school system. (LN)

The two problems examined were the effect of observers in the typical classroom and the possibility of regional bias in local observers' data. (LN)

A direct observation technique was used to investigate differences between children classified as conduct disturbed or normal on the basis of ratings given by their regular classroom teachers. (Author)

Major differences found were that inner-city teachers talked more about procedural activities, while advantaged teachers talked more about cognitive activities, and that advantaged students had twice as much student-initiated talk as disadvantaged. (RT)

This study investigated whether behavioral contagion would be observed when socially accepted and socially rejected children were exposed to an emotionally disturbed child for 3 months. (Author/BY)

Elementary and secondary preservice and inservice teachers were given a short training program in Interaction Analysis. Pre and post multiple choice tests were administered, and subjects showed a 20 percent increase in mean score. Some teachers reported increased self-awareness and verbal interaction with their students. (Author)

Criticizes present means of identifying and correcting reading problems as inadequate and makes several recommendations for the raising of reading standards through improved programs, teacher education, and better problem identification. (MD)

To evaluate the Curriculum for Children's Effective Peer and Teacher Skills (ACCEPTS) program, 28 handicapped elementary-aged children were divided into groups receiving either social skills training plus contingency management, social skills training only, or a control group. (MC)

A study was conducted to replicate previous findings concerning naive judges' negative immediate impressions of learning disabled children. Results indicated that while second grade learning disabled boys were judged as at least as adaptable as and less hostile than nonlearning disabled children, the opposite results were obtained with fourth…