TY - JOUR
AU - Perkins, Hugh V.
AB - A PROCEDURE FOR ASSESSING THE CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS* HUG H V. PERKINS University of Maryland INTRODUCTION The behavior of students and teachers in the classroom has been a focus of research for over two decades. A persistent methodological prob­ lem has been how to obtain reliable objective data on behavioral varia­ bles. The need for more refined instruments to measure these variables, the growing interest in pupil and teacher behavior in natural settings, and the specific requirements of a planned research project on under- achievement led to the development of the procedure reported here. A method frequently used to study what goes on in classrooms and groups has been the verbatim recording of verbal behavior by machine or stenographer: e.g., Lewin, Lippitt, and White (1939), Anderson, Brewer, and Reed (1946), and Withall (1949) in their studies of social- emotional climate and, more recently, Gallagher (1962) and Spaulding (1963) in their respective analyses of the qualtiy of thinking and of the effective dimensions of the creative process. Hughes (1959) and Leacock (1963) used anecdotal or narrative de­ scriptions to obtain behavioral data that were less quantifiable but greater in scope. Frequently each pair of observers collate their 
TI - A Procedure for Assessing the Classroom Behavior of Students and Teachers*: 
JF - American Educational Research Journal
DO - 10.3102/00028312001004249
DA - 2016-06-23
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/a-procedure-for-assessing-the-classroom-behavior-of-students-and-CLW5cjh2ue
SP - 249
EP - 260
VL - 1
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -