ERIC ED137234: An Empirical Investigation of Teacher pdf

ERIC ED137234: An Empirical Investigation of Teacher

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In an attempt to investigate and define the “clarity of presentation” complex of teacher behaviors and to relate them to a number of presage and context variables, four instruments consisting of selected low inference behaviors were administered to four groups of ninth-grade students for rating the behaviors of their most clear and least clear teachers. The resulting data sets were factor analyzed to a principal axis, varimax rotated solution with resultant factors somewhat consistent across forms and highly consistent across clarity levels for each form. The data suggests that teacher clarity consists of a general dimension involving explaining concepts in an understandable manner, at an appropriate pace, involving use of examples and illustrations in presenting material. Practical implications appear in several areas: (1) junior high school teachers who wish to be judged as clear teachers should use clarifying techniques in their teaching methods; (2) teacher educators who wish to train clear teachers should stress the practice and frequent use of understandable presentations, appropriate pace, and use of examples; (3) researchers might well find similar success in identifying and defining other high inference constructs (e.g., teacher variability, enthusiasm, task-oriented behavior, etc.) by using similar methods.

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• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1977-04
• Year: 1977
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Catholic Schools, Classroom Communication, Data Analysis, Educational Research, Junior High School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Clarity, Teacher Education, Teaching Methods

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