Positive teacher-child relationships, characterized by warmth and closeness, are associated with better behavioral and academic outcomes for children in preschool and elementary school (Hamre & Pianta, 2005). Supporting teachers to establish these positive relationships with children is important in all early care and education (ECE) programs. Head Start programs, designed...
Purposes of the Study: 1. To design an instrument for classification of
teacher-child verbal interaction formulating classroom
cognitive patterns of communication.
2. To use the designed instrument in a classroom
outside the pilot program to formulate an apparent
teacher-child cognitive pattern of communication. Securing and Treating the Data:
Information basic...
The study is designed to determine what differences exist between
the nonverbal as well as verbal behaviors and teacher-student
interaction patterns in selected CHEM Study and traditional chemistry
classes in Oregon. Analysis of behavior in these classes is in terms
of a new observation system developed by H. D. Schalock...
This investigation was designed to measure certain visually
perceived nonverbal behaviors of teachers in an effort to learn the
relationships between these behaviors and the affective responses of
students to the teachers, To this end, teachers were videotaped, and
the tapes were shown to students for their affective responses.
Thirty...
Rooted in the writer's general concern with the teaching and
evaluation of writing, this study attempts to determine whether
verbally creative teachers are better able to identify verbally creative
students than are less verbally creative teachers. A second aim was
to determine whether the verbal creativity of the teacher is...
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship
between teacher behavior and understanding of children's behavior
in a group of beginning practicum student teacher aides. The
subjects were thirteen female college students enrolled in either
Child Development or Nursery School Teaching programs. These
students had all completed at...
The purpose of this research was to study the effect of teachers' written comments on students' homework papers. Fourth, Sixth and ninth grade mathematics classes in Saudi Arabia were selected for the study. The hypotheses for the study stated the following: Teachers' comments significantly increase students' achievement in mathematics. The...
This study was conducted to develop a statistical model of the influence of
course characteristics on student ratings of instruction. Unique to this study was
the inclusion of the student participation rate as a variable. Other course
characteristics studied were: expected grade, attendance, grade point average,
sex of students, reason...
Research suggests that a key factor in student persistence and success is the relationships students form with faculty (Chickering & Gamson, 1991; Kuh et al., 2005; Tinto, 1987). While it appears to be intuitive that small classes would promote these instructor/student relationships, research on class size provides conflicting results, with...