Both teachers and students can use experimental research methods in the classroom. (JR)

Presents one teacher's observations on the activities happening in the writing and drawing classes in New York's P. S. 84. (RB)

Teacher effectiveness research and its use in classroom observation have progressed substantially since the seventies; findings are now experimentally significant, cover a broad subject range, and can be generalized beyond low economic status groups and elementary school students. New teacher evaluation criteria and observation techniques have…

This system for describing teaching events is intended to facilitate the analysis of classroom observations for purposes of comparing, documenting, or evaluating different instructional techniques. The typology is designed to describe a wide range of settings and teaching styles. The descriptors are organized into two groups that simultaneously…

The final report presents progress of a project investigating compliance and noncompliance among severely handicapped students. Details are reported for each of the project's three years: from initial conceptualization of compliance and noncompliance, to training on the Microprocessor Operated Recording Equipment (MORE), to studies on the effects…

The author presents a process of developing individual observation designs, with the primary objectives of (l) initiating continual self-reflection upon teaching experiences using individual perceptions of what is important; and (2) establishing an open system of articulation and interaction between observing in classrooms and establishing for…

The author discusses the role that ethnography can play in understanding interaction processes in physical education classrooms, with the aim being improvement of instructional techniques. The characteristics of ethnography are described as: (1) dealing solely with action-watching and analyzing the things people say and do; (2) dealing with action…

Methods for videotaping a second grade classroom effectively and unobtrusively are described. Guidelines for equipment and personnel needs, equipment placement, and recording procedures are included. Details of the difficulties such methods present are also described. (SAS)

The operations for achieving skill in motor performance are perceiving, patterning, adapting, refining, varying, improvising, and composing. These operations are readily observable in physical education classes. An observation record containing the seven catagories was used to classify teacher feedback to students. The teachers observed were…

This study is a partial replication of Rosenthal's (1968) study of teacher expectation in which students falsely identified to teachers as being capable of doing better work showed greater intellectual growth than control students. The present study sought to determine whether or not this result could be duplicated and whether or not…

The Questioning Strategies Observation System (QSOS) is designed to record verbal behaviors occurring in the classroom which are associated with the teacher's use of questions. Twenty-four categories are used in three main sections: initiation of the question, response to the question, and reaction to the response. Under initiation, the categories…

This document contains the four appendixes to the final report (SP 003 269). Appendix A contains information on the Nova Educational Complex (part of the South Florida Education Center in Fort Lauderdale) where the study was conducted. Included are outline descriptions of the Nova High School curriculum and personnel and of the physical plant and…

A classroom observation instrument was developed for investigating teacher and student behaviors associated with the maintenance of an inquiry atmosphere where Earth Science Curriculum Project materials are used as a course of study. This instrument was later used in ESCP classrooms to determine its reliability and usefulness in describing teacher…

This document is a manual of instruction on how to administer the Child Behavior Survey Instrument (CBSI). This manual also presents definitions of the categories used to define the nature of the observed child's behavior. The CBSI provides a scheme for observing the classroom behavior of children along nine major categories: (1) orientation, (2)…

The observer training manual is designed to teach concepts and skills required to collect objective, precise information concerning teaching and learning processes in elementary school classrooms. Included are exercises, quizzes and tests so that readers may test their mastery of each skill area. The five instructional units treat the following…