This pilot study attempted to develop systematic scientific procedures for the study of improvisational drama with children, especially ways of assessing what the typical creative drama teacher does with children, what children do when they are acting, and what effects this might have on the rest of their educational development. Specific investigations undertaken were (1) development of methods for correlating child activity in dramatic tasks with involvement scale ratings and to correlate these ratings with audio tapes of the activities; (2) an analysis of the major events in improvisational drama; (3) development of a role involvement scale; (4) development of reliability in the use of the involvement scale; (5) development of ways of describing the relationship between the child's natural management of his own postures and gestures and the requirements of the role; (6) an examination through video tape of the way in which children of varying ages react to the same instructions and script; (7) relationships between dramatic, artistic, and fantasy measures of expression. (Analyses of data from a number of the studies cited are, at this time, incomplete.) (LH)