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Publication Date: 1976-Apr
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Relationships Among Secondary Students' Evaluations of Their Courses and Teachers and Their General Attitude Toward School.
Smith, Janice P.; Brown, T. J.
To explore the potential relationships among general attitude toward school, evaluative ratings of courses and instructors, and selected respondent characteristics, an attitude inventory, and, for each class, a course and instructor rating scale, with items which emphasized the nature of student-teacher interaction and level of course difficulty, were administered to 436 students in grades seven through twelve. Significant correlations suggest the need to adjust teacher rating results to account for student attitude, opinions about course difficulty and other dispositional variables. Further development of score-adjustment procedures and research to identify other relevant variables are also indicated. Information regarding the factor structures of the instruments is provided. The two instruments used in the study, Attitude Toward School and Course and Instructor Rating Scale, are included. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Correlation, Course Evaluation, Difficulty Level, Factor Structure, High School Students, Rating Scales, School Attitudes, Secondary Education, Statistical Analysis, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Student Teacher Relationship
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