Year: 1983
Type: dissertation
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: This study was designed to investigate the influence of teacher behavior on the social participation of preschool children.It examined how a change in teacher behavior affected the children's social participation behavior.The study was conducted in three phases, pretraining, training and post-training.Four teachers were observed during the free play period at a university laboratory preschool.Teacher behaviors were observed and coded for approximately 30 minutes, three days a week, for a two week period.Teacher behaviors were coded according to behaviors defined by Fagot (1973).Child behaviors were coded according to the social participation behaviors defined by Parten (1932).Teacher behaviors which occurred most frequently during the children's cooperative play at the pretraining phase were chosen for training.Training sessions were held following preschool sessions for one half hour, three days a week for a two week period.Included in the training sessions were instructional handouts to guide video-tape viewing and daily feedback for classroom performance of training behaviors.Teacher and child behaviors were coded again during the post-training phase.Post-training data was used for comparisons among the three phases of the study.Results indicated that the video-tape training was effective in increasing teacher play and observing behaviors.Open-ended questioning did not increase.When teacher behaviors were changed child behaviors also changed.Increased amounts of associative and cooperative play were observed.Parallel and unoccupied behaviors decreased.Cooperative play only increased during the training phase of the study.
Authors: Cynthia McHugh Baxter, Susan Workman
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1539792644