Classroom Environment

• Main Author: Fraser, Barry J.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 1986; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
• Subjects: Classroom environment; Classroom Practice; Evaluation; Great Britain; School environment; School Leadership, Management & Administration; Theories of Learning; Harvard Project Physics; Person Environment Interaction; Suprapersonal Environment; Person Environment Fit; RLE; Classroom Environment Variables; Classroom Environment Instruments; Univariate ANOVA Result; Ward Atmosphere Scale; High Inference Measures; Actual Classroom Environment; ICEQ; Curriculum Evaluation Studies; Classroom Environment Assessments; School Level Environment; Regression Surface Analyses; Learning Environment Dimension; Community Oriented Program Environment Scale; Preferred Classroom Environment; West Germany; Classroom Environment Perceptions; CES; Significant Canonical Correlation; Improved Scale Reliabilities; Confirmatory Maximum Likelihood Factor Analysis
• ISBN: 9780415689601; 1138006513; 0415689600; 9781138006515
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203125885

The increasing impact of performance based judgments on schools and teachers in the classroom has its critics and supporters. Some oppose the trend and seek to deny the importance of quantitative measures. Others have sought to find ways of implementing educational measurement constructively and wit...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Classroom Environment -- Copyright -- Contents -- Forward -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction and Background -- Approaches to studying classroom environments -- Historical perspectives on classroom environment research -- Distinction between school-level and classroom-level environment -- Choosing an appropriate level of analysis: Private and consensual press -- Overview of other chapters -- 2. Instruments for Assessing Classroom Environment -- Overview of five classroom environment instruments -- Instrument development procedures -- Descriptive details for five instruments (LEI, CES, ICEQ, MCI and CUCE I) -- Instrument validation procedures -- Validation information -- Short forms of CES, ICEQ and MCI -- Other classroom environment instruments -- School-level environment instruments -- Conclusion -- 3. Associations Between Student Outcomes and Classroom Environment -- An example of a study of outcome-environment relationships -- Overview of past studies of outcome-environment relationships -- Conclusion -- 4. Use of Classroom Environment Perceptions as Criterion Variables -- Curriculum evaluation studies -- Differences between student and teacher perceptions of actual and preferred environment -- Other studies involving environment dimensions as dependent variables -- Conclusion -- 5. Person-Environment Fit Studies of Whether Students Achieve Better in Their Preferred Environment -- Past person-environment fit work -- An example of a person-environment fit study -- Discussion -- 6. Changing Classroom Settings -- Related literature -- Application of methods for facilitating change -- Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendices -- References -- Author Index -- Topic Index