A discussion of the results of a microteaching experiment in Great Britain that indicates that self-instructional microteaching is effective in bringing about large and stable changes in teacher behavior. (Author/HB)

In an experiment to test the effectiveness of discrimination training--contrasting good and poor teacher behaviors and demonstrating the stimulus occasions for these behaviors--as compared with feedback from an instructor in microteaching, a discrimination model for a limited class of teaching behaviors was devised and subjects were divided into…

To test the effectiveness of the minicourse (an instructional microteaching package) in changing specific teacher behaviors, 20-minute pre- and postminicourse video-taped recordings of each of the 48 participating teachers' classroom lessons were made and were scored by trained raters. Further, to insure rater objectivity, delayed postcourse video…

Thirty minutes of discrimination training was shown to be highly effective in changing teaching behavior while microteaching, that is, practicing teaching twice, reviewing the lesson on videotape, and receiving feedback, did not result in significant overall changes in teaching behavior. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relative effects of different modes of supervisory feedback on the development of beginning teacher candidates' refocusing behaviors. Thirty-nine secondary teacher candidates served as subjects. They were enrolled in two sections of the course taught by the same instructor and were assigned randomly…

After 39 months, the performance of the subjects was still significantly superior to their precourse performance on 8 of the 10 behaviors that were scored. (Author)

This study was designed to observe the effect of two basic variations of a film mediated model on teacher trainees' acquiring the technique of asking questions that require thought before being answered; it attempted to discover whether the subjects could best learn this technique by watching it illustrated by a filmed model, or by engaging in…

Earlier research has demonstrated that verbal teaching behaviors can be modified through the Teaching Laboratory (TL), which consists of peer group microteaching experiences. This study investigated whether or not these behaviors would persist into later student teaching. Each of 50 secondary student teachers, who were divided into control and…

Social learning theory is the theory that is applied through microteaching. The two critical sets of social learning variables mediated through microteaching are those associated with modeling and feedback. Microteaching is also a way of bringing specific teaching responses under experimental and behavioral control. Thus in each microteaching…

Statistical analysis of the videotape recorder as a feedback device used to train teacher interns produced four conclusions: that videotape feedback to teacher interns did not produce behavioral changes significantly different from those teacher interns who did not receive feedback; that the addition of inputs such as critique and type scripts did…

Reviews theories related to learning which takes place as a result of micro-teaching. One school of thought stresses skill definition, modelling, and feedback; a conflicting approach stresses behavior modification. (AV)

Research performed pursuant to a contract with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of Education.

One hundred and forty-eight student teachers from Israel Institute of Technology were subjects of an experiment investigating effectiveness of microteaching alone as compared with a category observation system as a training method, and interaction between the two when combined. Thirty-two subjects were assigned at random to each of the four cells…