Investigated use of modeling procedures to teach constraint-seeking interrogative strategies to elementary school children (n=114). Used game of Twenty Questions to model and test subjects' question-asking behaviors. Results indicated that modeling procedures were effective in helping children learn to use constraint-seeking interrogative…

This project studied the counselor training of reflection of feelings. The independent variables were method of instruction; order of assessment stimuli presentation; and assessment stimuli. There were four methods of instruction: model plus expert performance feedback, model plus self-generated cued performance feedback, modeling only, and…

Advocates demonstrating writing as a teaching method and compares it to teaching skiing and pottery. (EL)

A three and one-half-year-old profoundly deaf girl, whose physiologic, acoustic, and phonetic data indicated poor speech production, rapidly learned goal articulation gestures (positional and timing features of speech) after visual articulatory modeling and feedbck on tongue position with a microprocessor based instrument and video display.…

Investigated effects of time, task, and order in training college students in reflective responses. Major findings focused on relevance of time and assessment method in evaluating effectiveness of modeling and instructions. Results indicated the superiority of combined conditions and general lack of helping-skill competence of untrained…

Describes how modeling, guided practice in controlled materials, monitoring and corrective feedback, and independent practice were used to teach contractions to six low-performing second graders, including a child with learning disabilities. Planning and implementation of the lessons are described and a sample lesson plan is provided. (CR)

Acquaints readers with music education research journals and summarizes recent research on instructional techniques, factors influencing performance, grading systems, and broad lines of inquiry. One study showed that students perceiving greater involvement, affiliation, teacher support, and organization tended to receive better music contest…

Two alternative instruction conditions (modeling and imitation) were used to teach a novel morpheme, embodied in a visual symbol system, to 21 children (ages 5-6) with specific language impairment (SLI) and 2 peer groups. Results indicated that imitation practice afforded assistance to children with SLI and their age-matched peers in morpheme…

Mental modeling techniques useful in reading classrooms are described, and three phases are outlined for teaching mental modeling by helping preservice teachers to develop a conceptual understanding of reading and reading instruction, learn how to plan and conduct reading lessons that contain mental modeling, and refine their mental modeling…

This study examined the effect of modeling instructional strategies in an introductory class for preservice special education teachers (N=42). Examination of participants' attitudes toward various instructional strategies found attitudes and perceptions were positively affected by the instructor's modeling of certain strategies, especially…

Tests the use of modeling and wait-time as guided-tour procedures and their use by docents as a strategy for increasing visitor questions. Modeling and wait-time seemed clearly important in encouraging visitors to begin to ask questions. Visitors asked an average of seven times more questions than had been asked on pre-experimental tours. (PVD)

A study investigated the effectiveness of a treatment package that included video technology (e.g., video modeling and video prompting) to teach 3 self-help skills (cleaning sunglasses, putting on a wrist watch, and zipping a jacket) to 3 elementary students with mental disabilities. Results indicate the treatment package was effective. (Contains…

A study assessed the impact of using modeling and rehearsal techniques for teaching breast self-examination to college students. Although students exposed to the techniques did not differ from a control group who read pamphlets in knowledge level, their attitudes changed somewhat. (PP)

This paper describes a university research program, the Teacher Model Group, which developed a theory of teaching in context, examining how and why teachers make specific decisions and take specific actions as they teach. The teacher model includes descriptions of teacher beliefs, goals, and knowledge. Two core assumptions underlying the model are…

The instructional utility of employing modeling strategies to promote skill acquisition of exceptional learners in the content areas of arithmetic, spelling, reading, expressive language, and handwriting is presented vis-a-vis descriptions of several basic modeling strategies and teaching procedures in which models are integral components. (Author)