This study tested 60 children, 5 to 8 years old, on a variety of mental, moral, social, creative and cognitive tasks to determine the interrelatedness of those variables and their relationships to the intellectual process of decentration. The subjects were observed while attending a summer program prior to entering grades one through three.…

A study explored the influence of two variables, 1) experience in viewing one's own classroom behavior through video tape and 2) training in the analysis of teaching behavior, on the self evaluation of student teachers. Subjects were 66 student teachers assigned to three groups: group 1 receiving 48 hours of training in analysis of teaching…

This report reviews the results of some 35 studies completed between 1956 and 1970 which attempted to relate systematically observed teaching behaviors to adjusted measures of student achievement. Information in each study includes investigator, date, population, time, tests used, and significant and non-significant results. The studies are…

This study focused on the Instructor-Group Interaction Scale, formulated by Hildebrand, Wilson, and Dienst (1971), to explore the feasibility and usefulness of an instrument for recording instructor-group interaction in the college classroom. It was hypothesized that data from the scale would (a) provide the instructor with the pattern of…

This was a descriptive study of six second grade children working in an environment that resembled a science activity corner in a classroom. The purpose of the study was to develop observational frameworks for viewing the children's response to the environment. Four observational frameworks which were evolved for viewing the children's expressive…

The manual, designed particularly for work with acting-out or behavior problem students, describes coding procedures used in the observation of continuous classroom interactions between the student and his peers and teacher. Peer and/or teacher behaviors antecedent and consequent to the subject's behavior are identified in the coding process,…

The misbehavior of children often presents a severe problem to the classroom teacher. An attempt is reported here to eliminate such misbehavior by strengthening a competing and educationally relevant class of behavior, namely academic performance. A classroom was sleected in an urban school which included children with the most severe behavior…

Discussed in this paper is how a multi-faceted research strategy was used to investigate the interacting forces existing in open classrooms. Using behavioral mapping, a standardized naturalistic time-sampling technique for quantifying and describing behavior patterns and use of physical space, day long observations of individual children and…

Fifty-eight undergraduates took part in an experiment evaluating a full-spectrum light closely approximating natural sunlight and a cool-white fluorescent light commonly used in institutional settings. Four classes of a single teaching assistant were used and each class was compared against itself under different lighting conditions. Data were…

The authors' experiences in using three different approaches to the study and documentation of processes used in the Experience-Based Career Education model are reported. The approaches used were: ethnography, systematic observation of student behavior in natural settings, and in-depth student interviews. (Author/BP)

The reliabilities of various observational measures were determined, and the influence of both the number and the length of the observation periods on reliability was examined, both separately and jointly. A single simplifying assumption leads to a variant of the Spearman-Brown formula, which may have wider application. (Author/CTM)

Presents a philosophy for long term continuous observation of young children in order to study this intellectual development. A one year study of a class of 32 eight-and nine-year-old students was conducted. (SL)

Describes a process used for training prospective teachers to gain some initial skill in the observation of children. (JMB)

A teacher evaluation system used at a special school for the gifted promotes teacher involvement through self study, peer observation, team critique, and administrator observation and critique. Four teacher types as defined by level of commitment and abstraction ability have different supervisory needs. (Author/DB)

The article describes Systematic Screening for Behavior Disorders (SSBD), a screening procedure for identifying elementary students at risk for serious behavior disorders. Teacher judgment is the primary information source for the first two screening stages and direct behavioral observations for the third. Results of a year-long SSBD study are…