This paper indicates why the use of "Category Systems" provides a potential for making precise and valid cross-cultural comparisons of classroom behaviors not equaled by other techniques. The paper is presented to highlight a technique which seems especially suitable for use by comparative educators and other social scientists who wish to make…

Although this paper focuses mainly on the cross-national comparison of classroom behaviors, the technique discussed is applicable to comparisons of teaching associated with different cultural groups within a single country, to comparisons of teaching across time, and to other types of comparisons as well. (Author/KC)

This paper contains the major comparative findings of an investigation undertaken to survey and precisely describe a number of classroom behaviors occurring within the Kindgom of Nepal and to determine how those behaviors differed from comparable U.S. classroom behaviors. Comparisons were made using the Beeby taxonomy of educational stages and…

Written to assist future researchers in conducting cross-national studies of classroom behaviors, this study indicates a number of factors which may reduce the validity of comparisons made. It is based on an investigation which explored the feasibility of using the Activities Categories Instrument and the Flanders Interaction Analysis Categories…