Fifty-one instruments obtained from eleven projects are listed in this handbook and categorized by: (a) the program for which the instrument was constructed (participant, program, and pupil evaluation); (b) the respondents for whom the instrument is intended (teacher, parent, pupil, participant, etc.); and (c) the behavioral domain which the…

During the course of investigations on such topics as the instructional styles, interaction patterns and personality characteristics of teachers, the organizational structure of schools, the technology of instruction, and the affective and cognitive growth of students, researchers have developed hundreds of psychological and educational…

Reviews behavior correlates of effective teaching. (DAG)

This paper is a review of the methodological problems recently uncovered in studying the nature of teacher effectiveness and evaluating the performance of individual teachers. Four problems encountered in the literature are range of measurements, inconsistent instrumentation across similar studies, lack of a generic framework from which to select…

Five studies identifying the relationships between teacher behavior and pupil achievement are reviewed. The purpose of the review is to report the most practical implications for teacher education. The behaviors listed in these studies represent only those teacher processes, skills, or performances that have exhibited statistically significant…