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Jamil, Faiza M.; Sabol, Terri J.; Hamre, Bridget K.; Pianta, Robert C. – Elementary School Journal, 2015
Contemporary education reforms focus on assessing teachers' performance and developing selection mechanisms for hiring effective teachers. Tools that enable the prediction of teachers' classroom performance promote schools' ability to hire teachers more likely to be successful in the classroom. In addition, these assessment tools can be used for…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Selection, Teacher Effectiveness
Hamre, Bridget K.; Pianta, Robert C.; Downer, Jason T.; DeCoster, Jamie; Mashburn, Andrew J.; Jones, Stephanie M.; Brown, Joshua L.; Cappella, Elise; Atkins, Marc; Rivers, Susan E.; Brackett, Marc A.; Hamagami, Aki – Elementary School Journal, 2013
Validating frameworks for understanding classroom processes that contribute to student learning and development is important to advance the scientific study of teaching. This article presents one such framework, Teaching through Interactions, which posits that teacher-student interactions are a central driver for student learning and organizes…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
Curby, Timothy W.; Stuhlman, Megan; Grimm, Kevin; Mashburn, Andrew; Chomat-Mooney, Lia; Downer, Jason; Hamre, Bridget; Pianta, Robert C. – Elementary School Journal, 2011
The quality of classroom interactions has typically been studied using aggregates of ratings over time. However, within-day ratings may contain important variability. This study investigated within-day variability using the NICHD Study of Early Childcare and Youth Development's observational data during grades 3 and 5. The first question examined…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Grade 3, Grade 5, Classroom Observation Techniques
Stuhlman, Megan W.; Pianta, Robert C. – Elementary School Journal, 2009
In the present study, we present analyzed profiles of observed classroom experiences in terms of emotional and instructional dimensions of quality. Over 800 first-grade classrooms across the United States were included, selected by virtue of having a student participating in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of…
Descriptors: Class Size, Observation, Child Health, Educational Quality
Wilson, H. Kent; Pianta, Robert C.; Stuhlman, Megan – Elementary School Journal, 2007
In this study we examined the relation between children's social competence and their first-grade classroom environment. Drawing from data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, we used cluster analysis to identify 4 types of typical classrooms based on observed classroom emotional and instructional supports. The 4 types…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response), Multivariate Analysis
Rimm-Kaufman, Sara E.; La Paro, Karen M.; Downer, Jason T.; Pianta, Robert C. – Elementary School Journal, 2005
The present article examined 2 questions about the relation between kindergarten classroom processes (setting and quality) and children's engagement in activities, compliance with teachers' requests, and interactions with peers. First, how do children's engagement, compliance, and cooperation vary as a function of teachers' use of classroom…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Cooperation, Classroom Environment, Educational Quality
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Pianta, Robert C.; Cox, Martha J.; Taylor, Lorraine; Early, Diane – Elementary School Journal, 1999
Surveyed practices of 3,595 kindergarten teachers related to transition into kindergarten and implementation barriers. Found that in-person contacts with children/families were among those used least often. Most frequent were practices taking place after start of school and/or involving low-intensity, generic contact. School location and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Practices, Kindergarten, National Surveys
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Pianta, Robert C.; La Paro, Karen M.; Payne, Chris; Cox, Martha J.; Bradley, Robert – Elementary School Journal, 2002
Observed 223 public school kindergarten classrooms to describe classroom activities and child-teacher interactions. Also observed global classroom quality. Found, among other observations, that the most frequently observed forms of activity were structured, teacher-directed activities and whole-group instruction. Findings pose implications for…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
La Paro, Karen M.; Pianta, Robert C.; Stuhlman, Megan – Elementary School Journal, 2004
Research on teacher-child relationships, classroom environments, and teaching practices provided the rationale for constructing a system for observing and assessing emotional and instructional elements of quality in early childhood educational environments: the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS). The CLASS provides a framework for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scoring, Preschool Education, Classroom Environment