Persons interested in examining and improving instruction in the schools have long been aware of the need for more objective techniques to examine instructional processes. Flanders Interaction Analysis Categories provide an objective technique appropriate for studying the verbal, student-teacher interaction in classrooms; it can be applied in…

Results indicate that group participants in a consciousness raising session generally move through a process of creating a new identity, seeing themselves as pitted against the establishment; denying establishment values for new ones; and supporting liberation efforts of unrecognized groups. (RN)

The present investigation emphasizes the need for a much greater concerted effort in the study and investigation of the social-emotional aspects of children in the inner-city school and resulting educational strategies that may be helpful for teachers who work in these schools. (Author)

The exchange of self-disclosures was studied in a experimental setting and was found to function in a manner consistent with social exchange theory in both male and female groups of strangers. A positive relationship was found to exist between self disclosure and liking patterns. (Author)

Media therapy is a systematic video program in behavior change for psychiatric patients. Patients engage in short videotaped interactions with a consultant-facilitator. These interactions then are viewed, and the patient with consultant help identifies specific behavior that he would like to change. (Author)

Describes a method with data analyzed from two lessons on the quantitative assessment of content structure in classroom dialogue. Kinetic structure analysis was used and the fundamental coefficient of structure was calculated for each lesson. The method should provide new directions for looking at verbal interaction in classrooms. (PS)

Data clearly supported the major hypotheses concerning the superiority of contingent reinforcement over nurturance in facilitiating imitation. (Authors)

The purpose of this study was the development and testing of an instrument for measuring interaction behavior in small group communication. It was designed to produce valid and reliable measures for each dimension of such behavior. (Author/JB)

Describes the underlying theory and procedures in developing a reliable category system for systematic observation of teacher-pupil interaction in high school biology classes. The instrument has five dimensions comprising the evaluative, cognitive, procedural, pupil-talk, and silence dimensions which are further divided into forty-five categories…