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Pupils' Perceptions of ‘Effective Disciplinarians’
Author(s) -
Munn Pamela,
Johnstone Margaret,
Holligan Chris
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192900160207
Subject(s) - perception , psychology , variety (cybernetics) , pupil , class (philosophy) , mathematics education , pedagogy , computer science , artificial intelligence , neuroscience
This paper reports the perceptions of 543 pupils about the strategies used by their teachers which get the class to work well. The pupils were in four secondary schools and aged between 12 and 16. Twenty‐one categories of effective strategies were derived from pupil comments. However, no single category dominated the data. Examining what we have called ‘pupils’ constructs of effective strategies’ revealed that a wide range of strategies were perceived as effective. Not only was a variety of strategies seen as effective, pupils in each school identified over 75% of the staff as being best at getting the class to work well.