Studying Teacher Behavior with the OScAR Technique.

Autor/in	Medley, Donald M.
Institution	Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, Berkeley, CA.
Titel	Studying Teacher Behavior with the OScAR Technique.
Quelle	(1966), (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Behavior Change; Check Lists; Educational Research; Elementary School Teachers; Interaction Process Analysis; Observation; Research Methodology; Student Teachers; Teacher Behavior; Teaching; Verbal Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Checkliste; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Prozessanalyse; Beobachtung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Teacher behaviour; Lehrerverhalten; Unterricht
Abstract	Educational Testing Service is involved in a measurement approach to research in teaching with a goal of developing procedures for obtaining objective quantitive descriptions of teacher behavior, in terms of a minimum number of dimensions, on the basis of direct observation. The Observation Schedule and Record (OScAR), a card which contains a list or taxonomy of behaviors the observer is to look for during a classroom visit and which provides space for recording the frequency of occurrence of each item, may be used to produce profiles to study differences in behavior of effective and ineffective teachers, to measure changes in teachers during training, and to measure the effects of training on teacher behavior. Two research studies have been made using the OScAR technique, one of New York City first-year elementary teachers (to compare the relative merits of several measures of teacher effectiveness) and one of student teachers in a campus school (to observe changes in their behavior). Both studies illustrate that information about areas where both our ignorance and our need for knowledge are great can be obtained by studies using the OScAR technique. Currently an omnibus instrument, the first part of which deals only with teachers' verbal behaviors, is being constructed for use in a number of projects designed either to do research or to implement educational change. (JS)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC