This study was conducted to investigate the effects that a teacher educator lecturing on and modeling two specific behaviors via separate videotapes had on three operationally defined teaching behaviors. A repeated measure multiple baseline design was used to measure changes in frequency of touching, gesturing, and praising behaviors of five teacher trainees. Three separate treatments were introduced to trainees including a videotape of a teacher educator lecturing on touching and gesturing behaviors, a videotape of a teacher educator modeling touching behaviors only, and a videotape of the same teacher educator modeling gesturing behaviors only. Each of five teacher trainees was individually exposed to one, two, or all three treatment conditions while continuous observation occurred. The order of treatment introduction and the number of treatment introductions varied across subjects to assess treatment order interaction. / Results indicated (a) a functional relationship between the frequency of occurrence of touching and gesturing behaviors and the separate treatment conditions involving the modeling of these behaviors, (b) no relationship between touching and gesturing behaviors and the videotaped treatment involving lecturing on these skills, and (c) no relationship between any treatment and the frequency of praising behavior. Further analysis of the data indicated that each treatment condition remained independent of the others in producing change in teacher trainee behaviors and each only affected the associated dependent variable. / Follow-up observations, two weeks after the conclusion of the experiment, indicated that the frequency of target behaviors remained fully constant with previously established levels. These findings imply that a teacher educator modeling specific behaviors can effectively change the same behaviors of teacher trainees. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-02, Section: A, page: 0368. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1987.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76039 |
| Contributors | SPANN, JUDITH WALKER., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 149 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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