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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PREFERRED AND ACTUAL CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT AS PERCEIVED BY PRIMARY STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
Author(s) -
FRASER BARRY J.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1984.tb02597.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perception , psychosocial , sample (material) , class (philosophy) , school teachers , mathematics education , developmental psychology , chemistry , chromatography , neuroscience , psychiatry , artificial intelligence , computer science
S ummary . This study of perceptions of classroom psychosocial environment is distinctive in that it involved a sample at the primary school level and it incorporated assessments of both preferred and actual environment. Administration of a new short version of the My Class inventory to a sample of 758 third grade students and their 22 teachers supported the validity of the instrument and revealed some interesting systematic differences between pupils and teachers in their perceptions of preferred and actual classroom environment. In particular, both pupils and teachers tended to prefer a more favourable classroom environment than was perceived as being actually present, and teachers generally perceived the environment of their classes more positively than did their pupils in the same classrooms.