A teaching consultation service for college instructors offered at Indiana University--Northwest is described using a hypothetical teaching situation. The service is designed to allow the faculty member a comprehensive and in-depth look at his classroom instruction. It is a voluntary, individualized, and confidential service. The teaching…

This supplemental report concludes the analysis of data collected in response to a request by the Eugene (Oregon) school board for an assessment of reading instruction in the school district. The first section of the report examines materials and recordkeeping within the schools. Specifically it states what materials are used and how teachers rate…

This collection of 3 bilingual papers on issues related to staff training for preschool programs is part of a series of papers on various aspects of day care published by the Canadian Department of Health and Welfare. Each paper is presented in both English and French. Paper I offers brief guidelines for observing and learning about the behavior…

Anthropological methods of classroom observation were combined with the results of student responses to three questionnaires in a study of classroom learning environments. The questionnaires were: Learning Environment Inventory, Class Activities Questionnaire, and ALP (Authenticity, Legitimacy, Productivity) Ethos Instrument. Although the…

Findings from several recent studies suggest that the gender, cultural background and age of observers may influence their perception and evaluation of nonverbal communication. There is ample evidence to warrant using raters of only one sex (preferably female) and only one cultural background when the rating task involves decoding nonverbal…

Previous studies of children's judgments of culpability have usually involved asking children questions about hypothetical actors presented in stories or on videotape. The current study attempted a naturalistic study of attributions of blame by observing children in spontaneously occurring remedial interchanges, situations in which an interactant…

The College of Education of the University of Toledo designed a competency-based teacher education (CBTE) program in 1968-69 and began the implementation of that program in 1970. The total CBTE program is based upon a predetermined set of specific behaviors to be mastered, and includes a Teacher Education Center as a coordinating, materials and…

The improvement of student engaged time leads to improved instruction and greater academic achievement. Major steps for improving instruction by improving student engaged time are information collection, comparison of information and identification of strategies, selection and preparation of strategies, and implementation and re-evaluation. This…

Previous research studies show that interacting elements affecting reported classroom observation of teacher behavior are: (1) teacher characteristics; (2) observer characteristics; (3) influence of status characteristics upon social interaction; (4) effect of sex and topic on judgment of competence; (5) beliefs concerning teaching and teaching…

As an attempt to confirm the view that the relationships between certain classroom process variables and student achievement are curvilinear, first grade reading and mathematics data from the Stallings and Kaskowitz (1974) Project Follow Through Classroom Observation Evaluation were reanalyzed using orthogonal polynomial regression methods.…

This guide in Spanish provides performance criteria for evaluating the foreign language teacher. It provides an outline for analyzing the teacher's actions and teaching methods in the classroom. Through the evaluation by an outsider, the teacher can learn his or her faults in the views of others and can improve on them. The aspects to be analyzed…

These guidelines, designed for use by cooperating public school teachers in student teaching programs, contain the following five components: (1) general objectives for pre-student-teaching clinical experiences; (2) the roles and expectations of university students, university faculty and staff, and public school teachers in preservice clinical…

The Social Interaction and Creativity in Communication System (SICCS) was constructed for purposes of (1) initiating more objective inquiry into talent identification programs; (2) fostering the observational skill and insight of practitioners wanting to facilitate the communication of creativity in others; (3) assessing the processes and…

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that specific in-class behaviors of classroom teachers could be modified by training. Focused on were these four behaviors: (a) positive reinforcement (PR), (b) negative reinforcement (NR), (c) amount of time the teacher talks as a percentage of all talk in class, and (d) encouragement of…

Investigated were teacher-pupil and pupil-pupil relationships in the context of elementary science activities, of which the characteristic feature was the predominance of small group work by pupils without continuous teacher direction. Two pairs of pupils from each of ten classes were recorded for a single class session using two independently…