This study investigated the ability of middle school teachers to use descriptive feedback from their students in changing their teaching behavior. One homeroom group of twenty-five students was observed in interaction with nine teachers of math, English, social studies, and science over a one-year period to elicit both quantifiable and qualitative…

College Classroom Vignettes, a videotape technique used to motivate teachers to change classroom behavior, is discussed. This new application of videotape was undertaken at Northwestern University's Center for the Teaching Professions with funding from the Danforth Foundation. College Classroom Vignettes are videotape records of actual classroom…

A bilingual rating scale was constructed to determine teachers' ratings of attitude and proficiency among Anglo and Spanish children in Title VII classes. This instrument was designed to ascertain how teachers perceive the pupils in their classroom and how two teachers representing different backgrounds perceive children of similar and different…

A Swedish research project dealing with creativity in schools is summarized and discussed. Interest areas include: (1) surveys of opinions about how to promote creativity in schools; (2) classroom observations on creativity-relevant teacher- student interactions; (3) development and try-out of certain Swedish tests for creativity; (4) studies of…

This paper reports the development of a Classroom Behavior Inventory and a series of studies which have developed and refined methods for collecting teacher ratings of children's social, emotional and task-oriented behavior from preschool through high school. Findings suggest that the Classroom Behavior Inventory is a relatively economical,…

Research on the relation between teacher behavior and pupil change has been an active field of inquiry for a number of years but the degree of agreement of results across various studies is not high. This paper is an examination of four studies seeking parallel bits of results which may be of use to classroom teachers. Research methodologies were…

Significant relations were found in this study between how teachers teach and how much children learn in reading and mathematics. The general picture which emerged from the data had two features; first, a pattern of teaching practices is more likely to be related to learning than a single practice and, second, effective teaching patterns will…

This report discusses the Columbia Classroom Environments Project Autonomy in Learning An Exploration of Pupils' and Teachers Roles in Different Classroom Environments to develop Criteria and Procedures for Evaluation in Project Follow Through. The report begins with a discussion of a set of matrices which combine all of the behavior code…

In this large scale study, the extent of parent involvement in preschool day care and its impact on staff and on classroom environments in child-centered and adult-centered situations were assessed. Subjects were 15 directors, 30 teachers, 524 children in 30 classrooms. Interview schedules and a classroom observation scale were the two instruments…

The teacher training program for teaching assistants (TA's) in the German department at the University of California at Berkeley is described in this paper. Problems common to both university and department are examined. The training program at the university is outlined in several areas including: (1) use of demonstration films, (2) class visits,…

The Anthropology Curriculum Study Project (ACSP) has developed a research model which is to be used to provide data for effective implementation of the ACSP course, "Patterns in Human History". The common "means-ends" model for research, which relies on one-way effects, is described and rejected in favor of an interactive,…

This study evaluates the effects of placement of additional equipment in preschool classrooms on the cognitive, perceptual, and social development of urban Negro four-year-old children. Two Get Set classrooms in each of six areas of Philadelphia were paired for teachers, subjects, physical facilities and equipment. One classroom in each pair was…

Approximately 250 students in grades 1-6 of two elementary schools, one utilizing an open classroom instructional program and the other a traditional instructional program, comprised the sample in this first year of a planned 2-year study. The study focuses on the assessment of the comparative effects of the two instructional programs on three…

This book is about the kinds of individual differences in students that make differential impressions on teachers, the ways that such differential impressions lead teachers to form differential attitudes and expectations regarding different students, and the ways that these differential teacher attitudes and expectations begin to affect…

This report traces the Syracuse University Curriculum Development Institute through its activities during the 1972-73 academic year. It reflects the field work accomplished in the North Syracuse School District by, and the Syracuse University campus activities of, the five interns involved. The text first covers participant selection procedures,…