This report is organized into seven chapters. Chapter One, an Introduction by Joseph C. Grannis, includes the most relevant sections of the proposal made by the Columbia Classroom Environments Project (CCEP) to Project Follow Through in August 1970. Chapter Two is an Analysis of the Child Behavior Stream Observations from the Spring 1971 Study of…

The study reported in the first part had two major goals: the construction of a pupil role interview schedule and the use of this interview to measure the influence of different programs in Project Follow Through on pupil role development. The second part of this report concerns a content analysis done by the Columbia Classroom Environments…

Cultural event analysis assists traditional social science methodologies--ethnographies and survey instruments--in the study of urban life. Testing a hypothesis--that educational problems arise and persist for Puerto Rican youth because of contrast, contrariety, and noncomplementarity between the cultural forms and patterns of their home life and…

A factorial design with 48 student teachers (40 were enrolled in the author's Social Studies Curriculum course at the University of California) was used to study the effect of a Social Studies curriculum course, self-confrontation on videotape, videotape-coding practice, and Guided Self-Analysis (GSA) upon the nature of teachers questions, teacher…

This report presents a chronological review (1893 to 1963) of formal and informal classroom observational studies which, in examining the use of recitation as a pedagogical method, show that teachers talk during the majority of classroom time, asking or reacting to factual questions posed to students. Included is a brief discussion of Arno…

One component of the Computer Based Project for the Evaluation of Media for the Handicapped focused on the effects of introducing instructional media into classes for the educable mentally retarded. The study used the methodology of participant observation, whereby researchers: 1) gained entry to the classes, 2) established rapport, 3) recorded…

In a comprehensive junior and senior high school featuring the "open education" approach school officials invited the authors to develop a plan to provide inservice training to teachers using the Spaulding System of Classroom Behavioral Analysis. Data for this study were gathered on 57 students in three groups: (1) those whose teachers…

The purpose of this investigation was to study the verbal interactions occurring between black and white teachers in recently desegregated social studies classrooms. Specifically, it sought to determine, by studying dyadic interactions, if there were any significant differences between: (1) black and white teacher's verbal behaviors with black and…

An attempt to record what pupils think and feel during the instructional process is the basis of this investigation of pupils' goal-related behavior. Two experiments are described that analyze what fourth grade pupils can tell about their activities during the instructional period when they are aided by an immediate videotape replay. These…

This study investigated the relationship between teacher behavior and pupil reflective dialogue in the classroom assuming that social problems provide a natural springboard for inquiry through classroom discussion. It was hypothesized that different teacher strategies promote different types of class interaction. Discussion styles were to be…

The feasiblity of an observational rating scale which would provide objective, reliable and quantifiable measures of social and affective behavior was investigated. The Observation of Socialization Behavior (OSB), focusing on peer-group behavior of pre-school children and designed for use in unstructured situations was developed. Two forms of the…

This paper is based on a compilation of the first two phases of longitudinal research on desegregation effects now being conducted in the Kalamazoo Public Schools. The purpose of the Phase I study was to obtain baseline data during the spring of 1971 prior to the desegregation of the Kalamazoo Public Schools, which was initiated in the fall of…

This study, one of a series investigating dyadic infracommunication in natural, academic, and laboratory settings, utilizes a simple observation technique such as that employed by anthropologists living among members of a society or subcultural group, observing and recording their behavior patterns, including their communication modes. Subjects…

This paper discusses the use of process-oriented research in early childhood programs. Process analysis is contrasted with outcome-oriented evaluation, the latter seen as prevalent in current research practice. Four functions of process analysis are: to describe current teaching practices, to train teachers, to monitor instructional programs, and…

Pupil activity was observed in three Title I projects to determine the frequency of certain essential activity categories, to compare those frequencies with the supervisors' ideal, to assess relationships between pupil activity and achievement, and between implementation and achievement, and to compare supervisor ratings of implementation with…