The current volume Teacher thinking and professional action re-presents selections from papers offered at the third biennial conference of ISATT held at the University of Leuven, Belgium in October 1986.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-257) and index.

part Section A Conceptual Frames for Teacher Thought and Action -- chapter 1 The Place of Process-Product Research in Developing the Agenda for Research on Teacher Thinking / David C. Berliner -- chapter 2 Perspectives on the Teaching Profession or Relative Appraisal / Pam M. Denicolo -- chapter 3 The Collective Student as the Cognitive Reference Point of Teachers Thinking about their Students in the Classroom / Rainer Bromme -- chapter 4 A Contrast of Novice and Expert Competence in Maths Lessons / Gaea Leinhardt -- part Section B Methods and Approaches to the Study of Teacher Thought and Action -- chapter 5 Strategies and Methods in Research on Teacher Thinking / G�nter L. Huber -- chapter 6 The Ground of Professional Practice / Antoinette Oberg -- chapter 7 Case Study in Research on Teaching: A ground for reflective practice / John Olson -- chapter 8 Teachers Personal and Professional Ideals about Practice / Michael Kompf -- chapter 9 Computer Simulation as a Tool in Studying Teachers Cognitive Activities during Error Diagnosis in Arithmetic / Erik De Corte -- part Section C Teacher Judgement and Evaluation of Students -- chapter 10 Goal-Dependent Perception in Relations between Teachers and Students / Teachers and Students Manfred Hofer -- chapter 11 Grading as a Quasi-rational Judgement Process / Annica Brehmer -- chapter 12 Analysing Teachers Thoughts Prior to Student Assessment / Urban Lissmann -- chapter 13 Teachers Causal Attributions in Problematic Situations / Karin van Opdorp, Paul den Hertog, Theo Bergen and Lucie Vreuls -- chapter 14 Teachers Need for Pupil Information in Special Education / Sip J. Pijl -- part Section D Teacher Thinking and Teacher Education -- chapter 15 Asking the Right Questions about Teacher Preparation: Contributions of research on teacher thinking / Christopher M. Clark -- chapter 16 Using Textbooks and Teachers Guides: What beginning elementary teachers learn and what they need to know / Deborah Loewenberg-Ball -- chapter 17 Supervision Conferences and Student Teachers Thinking and Behaviour / Jan Broeckmans -- chapter 18 Examining Complexity of Thought in Secondary Student Teachers / Greta Morine Dershimer -- chapter 19 Knowing, Thinking and Doing in Learning to Teach: A research framework and some initial results / Sharon Feiman-Nemser.