Matsuda, Michihiko

Maru, Eiichi

Matsuda, Fumiko

The purpose of this study was to examine student teachers' classroom behavior as it was influenced by listening their teaching behavior on a tape recorder or by viewing it on a videotape recorder. Specifically, the purpose was to examine the student teachers' behavior through data collected from three sources. 1. Introspective report by the student teacher after the student teacher training. 2. Self-rating by the student teacher about opinion and attitude to the teaching profession and about motivation to the student teacher training, before and after the student teacher training. 3. Rating of the student teacher's techniques and teaching impression at his first and his third (last) actual classroom teachings by ten supervisors. The videotape feedback group, the tape feedback group and the control group were made up of four student teachers respectively. The followings were the main results. 1. Opinion and attitude to the teaching profession of the student teacher changed to the good direction in general and the degree of the change was the largest in video-feedback group. 2. Motivation to the student teacher training decreased in the control group, increased in the tape-feedback group and changed to both directions in the video-feedback group. 3. Ratings by the supervisors showed that the teaching techniques changed to the good direction and there were no clear differences among three groups regarding them.