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Mayo, Nolie B.; Lanasa, Phillip J. – 1978
An observational study described and compared verbal interaction in specific language and learning disability (SLD), educable mentally retarded (EMR), and trainable mentally retarded (TMR) secondary level classrooms. Trained observers used Flanders Interaction Analysis system to obtain data in 46 classes. Most teachers used a direct style with…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Interaction Process Analysis, Learning Disabilities, Mental Retardation
Rose, Bruce J. – 1977
This research examined the nature of the "self-fulfilling prophecy" by investigating how the gradual accumulation of information and the relationship of the source and content of information may affect teachers' perceptions and ratings of trust, social ability, and academic ability of individual students. The study sought to answer two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Rating Scales, Bias, Classroom Communication
Baxter, Leslie A.; Philpott, Jeffrey – 1981
A study examined two factors thought to affect an individual's preference for confrontation or avoidance strategies when ending a relationship--communicator age and sex role orientation. Subjects were 29 fifth grade students, 64 high school sophomores, 43 college students, and 37 adults enrolled in a night class. All subjects read a scenario from…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Age Differences, Assertiveness
Stanford, Ronnie L.; Crew, Adolph B. – 1981
A description is given of a course for secondary education majors that is required in the sophomore year. The course combines techniques from microteaching and interaction analysis. A period of clinical experience is included, offering an opportunity for students to observe secondary teachers while acting as teacher aides. They thus became…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Education Majors
Brieschke, Patricia – 1981
Organizational socialization concerns the manner in which an individual learns the role of his or her career in the dominant setting in which the work occurs. From the functionalist approach, the role of teacher carries predetermined work attitudes, status, behaviors, and norms into which a beginning teacher is passively socialized. The…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Beginning Teachers, Interaction Process Analysis, Peer Influence
Moll, Luis C.; And Others – 1980
This research provides a detailed analysis of the inner workings of a bilingual program implemented in San Diego, California. The children in the study divide their school day between two separate classrooms, one offering instruction in Spanish and the other in English. The same students were videotaped as they participated in reading lessons in…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Ethnography
Cooper, Harris M.; And Others – 1974
Fourteen classrooms were grouped according to environmental format (open/mixed/traditional) and differences in teacher-student interaction patterns and perceptions of responsibility for outcomes assessed. As predicted, open classrooms showed the highest percentage of dyadic interactions. Also as predicted, open classrooms tended to show the lowest…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Educational Research
Friedman, Paul – 1978
Communication training for people experiencing life changes is examined in this paper. Among the topics considered are: recent social changes that have led to the occurrence of an increasing number of personal and professional changes during people's lives; the increased attention given recently to the process of communication within…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Counseling
Galton, Maurice – 1978
This paper presents a study of the organization of 60 junior school classrooms in Great Britain. The study was conducted to examine changes occurring as a result of the move towards comprehensive secondary education in Britain and as a result of the recommendations of the Plowden Committee for more individualized instruction at the primary level.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Classroom Research, Curriculum
Kilmer, Sally – 1979
The purpose of this paper is to assess the utility of a conceptual model of factors involved in early childhood policy development. The assessed model provides a framework which focuses on the interactive nature of decision-making. Basic parameters are identified and applied to an instance of successful participation in the development of policies…
Descriptors: Administrators, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Child Development Specialists
Derlega, Valerian J.; And Others – 1980
Using methods employed by Chaikin et al (1974) and Chaikin and Derlega (1978) to determine when tutors are susceptible to expectancy effects and whether expectancies lead to discrimination against low ability students, black undergraduates (N=76) taught a lesson on fire safety at home to a 10-year-old boy. Two black male and two white male…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Blacks, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Johnson, Charles E.; And Others – 1980
The Teacher Performance Assessment Instruments (TPAI) were designed to determine (for certification purposes) how well teachers can demonstrate certain minimum teaching skills considered essential to effective teaching. An analysis of the five instruments which compose the TPAI is presented. The topics of the five instruments are: teaching plans…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Competence, Media Selection
LIN, NAN – 1968
THE PURPOSES OF THIS PAPER ARE TO EXAMINE THE RESEARCH METHODS GENERALLY UTILIZED IN DIFFUSION RESEARCH AND TO SUGGEST RESEARCH METHODS WHICH MIGHT HELP PROVIDE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE DIFFUSION PROCESS. TO PROMOTE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMPLETE DIFFUSION PROCESS OF EDUCATIONAL CHANGE, RESEARCH SHOULD CONSIDER THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS,…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Diffusion, Educational Innovation, Field Studies
Brown, James C. – 1981
A course in communication skills that is provided to all freshmen dental students at the University of Mississippi School of Dentistry is described. The course is based primarily on the human relations training models of Blakeman (1975), Carkhuff (1969), and Egan (1975), and consists of six modules devoted to the skills of structuring, attending,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Communication Skills, Dental Schools, Higher Education
Biemiller, Andrew; And Others – 1976
This study examined the applicability of Watts' Human Interaction Scale to day care settings, and was also concerned at a more general level with the question of whether it is possible for day care settings to approximate good homes. Six 2-year-olds in each of two day care centers were each videotaped for a total of 45 minutes in a variety of…
Descriptors: Behavior, Child Development, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques
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