Use of Classroom Environment Instruments in Person-Environment Fit Research.

Autor/in	Fraser, Barry J.
Institution	Western Australian Inst. of Tech., Perth.
Titel	Use of Classroom Environment Instruments in Person-Environment Fit Research.
Quelle	(1983), (73 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	0-909848-47-5
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Classroom Environment; Evaluation Methods; Foreign Countries; Junior High Schools; Questionnaires; Student Attitudes; Student Characteristics; Student Reaction; Australia; Classroom Environment Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Ausland; Sekundarstufe I; Fragebogen; Schülerverhalten; Schülerkritik; Australien
Abstract	A comprehensive and rigorous investigation of the person-environment fit hypothesis that students achieve better in their preferred environment is described. The design of this study included four notable features. First, the student outcome domain included a comprehensive range of six affective and three cognitive outcomes. Second, classroom environment was measured with the five scales contained in the Individualized Classroom Environment Questionnaire (ICEQ) and the nine scales which make up an instrument called the Classroom Environment Scale (CES). Third, the sample size of 116 junior high school classes was large and permitted use of the class mean as the unit of statistical analysis where this was considered appropriate. Fourth, it provided a methodological improvement in that it made use of regression surface analysis to provide a powerful multivariate method of statistical analysis which enabled person-environment interactions to be represented as the products of continuous variables. Results confirmed that students achieved better where there was a greater similarity between the actual classroom environment and that preferred by students. To facilitate future research in the area of classroom environment, attention is given to describing the ICEQ and CES and reporting the impressive validation data obtained with the present sample of 116 classes. (Author/PN)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC