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THE EFFECTS OF FORMALLY BASED STATUS DIFFERENCES ON GROUP PRODUCTIVITY, EFFICIENCY, AND RISK TAKING.
Download full textBRIDGES, EDWIN M.; AND OTHERS
THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THIS EXPERIMENT WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER HIERARCHICALLY DIFFERENTIATED GROUPS WERE AS PRODUCTIVE ON PROBLEM-SOLVING TASKS AS HIERARCHICALLY UNDIFFERENTIATED GROUPS. THE EXPERIMENT ALSO INVESTIGATED THE EFFECTS OF FORMALLY BASED STATUS DIFFERENCES ON GROUP EFFICIENCY AND RISK-TAKING. TWENTY GROUPS CONTAINING FOUR SUBJECTS…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics, Group Norms
Wood, Margaret W.; And Others – 1969
An exploratory study investigated the effects of two organizational patterns of microsimulation experiences (concurrently with or sequentially to student teaching) on the verbal teaching behavior of student teachers trained in the Reciprocal Category System of Interaction Analysis (RCS) as compared to their counterparts who received no RCS…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Course Organization, Educational Experiments, Interaction Process Analysis
Cook, Linda; Rossett, Allison – 1976
Six hundred seventy one inner city high school women were administered an attitude scale designed to measure their sex role perception. The data was subjected to principal factor analysis with a varimax rotation. Four underlying factors comprising sex role perception were determined. The factors and their implications for educators are discussed.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Counselor Role, Cultural Influences, Educational Development
Piper, David Warren; Terry, Paul – 1971
A role playing exercise is presented that can be run either with or without video-tape depicting a problem student in a play-acted version. Suggestions are offered for organizing the exercise, which is a meeting of professors, a residence hall worker, the assistant registrar, a tutor, and possibly a college counselor. General instructions for role…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Yahraes, Herbert – 1978
This paper reviews Diana Baumrind's studies of the effect of various types of parental control on children's behavior and concludes that a child is more likely to develop a sense of competence, responsibility, and independence if he or she is given firm and reasonable guidelines. A brief survey of Baumrind's first two studies of preschool children…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Corporal Punishment, Discipline
Oberman, Marylen S.; And Others – 1977
In a study of the use of videotaping to modify teacher behaviors, five teachers in a reading and learning skills center were filmed in interaction with students; they then observed and measured their own "on-task" and "off-task" behaviors while viewing a series of taped sessions. A control group of two teachers had pretest and posttest filming…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Interaction Process Analysis
Karnes, Merle B.; Lee, Richard C. – 1977
This paper presents a discussion of the integration of handicapped children into preschool programs. The paper is divided into five sections. The first section defines some of the terms frequently used in discussions of mainstreaming. These terms include mainstreaming; normalization; P. L. 94-142, the law providing for education for all…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Evaluation Criteria, Handicapped Students, Individualized Programs
Owen, Steven V.; Froman, Robin D. – 1977
This research examines the interaction between college students' control orientation and a discrepancy score of GPA minus expected grade in course, on the dependent measure of 13 student rating items. It was hypothesized that students with an external locus of control who also showed a discrepancy between expected and actual grades would distort…
Descriptors: College Students, Expectation, Grades (Scholastic), Higher Education
Mortvedt, Marjory M. – 1975
The paper evaluates the use of group dynamics training for Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) aides in Ohio and assesses low income homemakers' adoption of group participation. The treatment group of aides was given week-long experimental group dynamics training which was coupled with nutrition and money management subject…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Educational Research
Simmons, Herbert Nelson – 1973
This study describes a workshop designed to improve elementary science instruction by encouraging teachers to discard the "spectator" mode of participation and become involved in a program designed to be compatible to the objectives and philosophy of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS). A random sample of 224 teachers (the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers
Masters, James R.; And Others – 1975
A two-year evaluation of William Glasser's Schools Without Failure (SWF) program was carried out in the New Castle School District in Pennsylvania. In the first year, ten elementary schools were paired on the basis of size, socioeconomic status, and past achievement of pupils. One school of each pair was randomly assigned to begin teacher-training…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education
Smith, Eldon Cale – 1976
The purpose of the study was to determine whether differences in verbal interaction existed between study teachers and first, second, and third year teachers with preservice instruction in Flanders Interaction Analysis Categories (FIAC) and a comparison group without such instruction. (TIAC is a system of 10 categories which classifies verbal…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Inservice Teacher Education, Interaction
Stewart, Anne C. – 1975
This study examined the effects of teaching student teachers specific verbal skills through "explaining," a procedure involving more than lecturing. Another group had explaining as well as peer teaching. A control group had neither. Fifteen-minute tapes were made of the teachers leading a small group discussion which explored a concept, both…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Interaction Process Analysis, Peer Teaching, Preservice Teacher Education
Eckloff, Maurine C.; Petelle, John – 1976
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of cognitive abstractness levels, interpersonal perception abilities, and task type (factual or social problem solving) on group performance as measured by time consumed and adequacy of solutions. Eighteen college classes from Kearney State College participated in testing of perceptual…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making
Center for New Schools, Inc., Chicago, IL. – 1971
This report outlines preliminary results of research analysis concerning one of 15 interrelated topics studied at an experimental "school without walls" to gain an understanding of the processes and outcomes involved in an attempt to establish an alternative social institution. The report is divided into four sections. Section 1 presents…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Anthropology, Educational Research, Interaction Process Analysis
