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Fisher, Darrell L.; And Others – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1995
Evaluated first use of a classroom environment instrument in a Year 1 class. Students responded to both the actual and preferred forms of the inventory. The teacher then implemented selected strategies in a practical attempt to improve the classroom environment in ways preferred by the students. Follow-up assessment indicated that the environment…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education
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Lightbown, Patsy M.; Spada, Nina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1990
Investigation of the developing oral English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) skills of native French speaking elementary students in a five-month intensive ESL course found that teachers' use of form-focused instruction and corrective feedback influenced students' correct use of "-ing" structures and adjective-noun order. (47 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Feedback
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Hacker, R. G. – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
Describes the interactions of high school girls and boys during coeducational science lessons. Analyses of the audiovideo recordings of 144 lessons taught by 12 male teachers indicate that girls were more likely to initiate classroom discourse. Findings did not support the hypothesis that gender disparity in science achievement in favor of boys…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Interaction Process Analysis
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Ullmann, Rebecca – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1991
Three case studies illustrate how recent classroom observation research has led to more active participation on the part of teachers, principals, and supervisors. The groups have worked closely to understand how the core French program works in the classroom. Participatory research is seen as an important professional development opportunity for…
Descriptors: Administrators, Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques
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Kelly, Jean – Gender and Education, 1991
To determine whether men dominate language in a mixed-gender adult classroom, 4 lessons were observed and recorded at a training course for 10 supervisors in London. Men helped maintain women's silence by the competitive nature of their discourse. Men's linguistic domination is related to research on children's classrooms. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques
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Shrock, Sharon A.; Stepp, Sidney L. – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1991
Describes a study that explored the social interaction among second and third grade students when a microcomputer was introduced into the classroom. The emergence of children who are microcomputer experts is discussed, the influence of such children on peers and peer preferences is examined, and implications for teachers and students are…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Regan, Helen B.; Hannah, Beth H. – Journal of Teacher Education, 1993
Teacher educators visited the classrooms of elementary teachers they had prepared to observe and interview them. Their research discovered an interplay between the philosophy and pedagogy of their program and the graduates' practice, the individual teacher's preparation and practice and the school culture, and what observers saw and understood.…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Environment, Elementary Education
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Fitzgerald, Gail E. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1998
This study of graduate students examined the process and outcomes of novice and expert teachers who learned a classroom-observation coding system through a hypermedia learning environment. The training program was designed as a modular, skills-based approach that allowed user-controlled access to tutorials, guided practice, and independent…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Observation Techniques, Coding, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Mrowa-Hopkins, Colette – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1993
Videotapes of French lessons in two Australian high schools at the level of year eight identified lesson features relevant to development of second-language skills. Classroom ecology and the importance of mime and gesture in relation to students' active listening and comprehension are stressed. Transcripts and the structure of exchanges in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Discourse Analysis
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Adams, Thomasenia L. – Childhood Education, 1998
Notes that alternative assessment techniques provide more comprehensive and authentic information about the learner than do traditional assessment techniques. Describes a variety of alternative assessment techniques (portfolios, journals, observations, self-assessment, classroom communication, surveys, and interviews) and illustrates how to use…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education
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Rousseau, Nadia – Mosaic: A Journal for Language Teachers, 1999
A descriptive case study provides a comprehensive profile of 13 learning disabled students' experience after one full year in a French immersion learning difficulties program in Canada. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Foreign Countries, French
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Sarouphim, Ketty M. – Exceptional Children, 1999
A comparison between performance-based DISCOVER (Discovering Intellectual Strengths and Capabilities through Observation while allowing for Varied Ethnic Responses) assessment reports and two independent ratings in appraising 24 kindergartners' multiple intelligences through specific activities found that when intelligences were assessed through…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Activities, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cultural Background
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Hufferd-Ackles, Kimberly; Fuson, Karen C.; Sherin, Miriam Gamoran – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2004
The transformation to reform mathematics teaching is a daunting task. It is often unclear to teachers what such a classroom would really look like, let alone how to get there. This article addresses this question: How does a teacher, along with her students, go about establishing the sort of classroom community that can enact reform mathematics…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Hispanic American Students, Case Studies, Mathematical Enrichment
Subramaniam, Selva Ranee – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2005
Questioning skills are significant pedagogical strategies in science teaching and learning. This study explored the questioning skills of a trainee teacher during a 10-week practicum period. The trainee teacher was audio-taped and evaluated in the form of an action research methodology was done in the first two weeks. The quantitative data…
Descriptors: Action Research, Questioning Techniques, Trainees, Practicums
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Miller, David; Glover, Derek – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2002
This article details an investigation into the use of interactive whiteboards undertaken in five elementary schools in an English education authority. Evidence was collected by using a questionnaire containing closed and open questions, lesson observations, and structured interviews of teachers and headteachers. Potential benefits in the…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Educational Change, Questionnaires, Investigations
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