ERIC_NO: ED420671
TITLE: Classroom Management Training, Class Size and Graduate Study: Do These Variables Impact Teachers' Beliefs Regarding Classroom Management Style?
AUTHOR: Martin, Nancy K.; Yin, Zenong; Baldwin, Beatrice
LANGUAGE: English
DESCRIPTORS: Analysis of Variance; Beliefs; Class Size; *Classroom Techniques; Construct Validity; Educational Practices; Elementary Secondary Education; Graduate Students; *Graduate Study; Higher Education; *Teacher Attitudes; *Training; Urban Schools
IDENTIFIERS: Inventory of Classroom Management Styles
ABSTRACT: This study represents a continuation of research efforts to further refine the Attitudes & Beliefs on Classroom Control (ABCC) Inventory. Formerly titled the Inventory of Classroom Management Style, the ABCC is an instrument designed to measure teachers' perceptions of their classroom management beliefs and practices. It is based on a continuum originally suggested by C. Wolfgang and C. Glickman (1980, 1986). Objectives were to: (1) investigate the impact of classroom management training on classroom management style; (2) study the relationship between class size and
classroom management style; (3) investigate differences between the perceived classroom management style of teachers who had and had not enrolled in a graduate course within the preceding 6 months; and (4) further substantiate the construct validity of the ABCC. Data were collected from 281 certified teachers, who were primarily urban, and female. Most of the teachers were Caucasian (69.9%) and they had an overall average of 14.35 years of teaching experience. Results show significant differences on the Instructional Management subscale of the ABCC regarding classroom management training as well as significant positive correlations between average class enrollment and teachers' scores on the People Management and Behavior Management subscales of the ABCC. A one-way analysis of variance did not yield significant differences between the teachers who had enrolled in graduate courses in the last 6 months and those who did not. Results seem to be in keeping with the construct. (Contains 3 tables and 26 references.) (SLD)
GEOGRAPHIC_SOURCE: U.S.; Texas
CLEARINGHOUSE_NO: TM028346
PUBLICATION_TYPE: 143; 150
PUBLICATION_DATE: 1998
EDRS_PRICE: EDRS Price - MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
COMMENTS: 18p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Diego,
CA, April 13-17, 1998).
PAGE: 18; 1
LEVEL: 1