Classroom climate in Serbia: The perspective of primary school teachers
Апстракт
The goal of this research is to gain insight into the classroom climate in schools in Serbia from the perspective of teachers. To realize this goal, we set up two research questions: (1) How do teachers assess the importance of certain aspects of the classroom climate and their own engagement in creating favourable climate, and (2) which factors determine the quality of classroom climate. We considered four dimensions of classroom climate: equality in communication, social relationships between students, respect for students’ feelings and the organizing group work. The sample consisted of primary school teachers in Serbia (N=1441), who completed a questionnaire made for our research needs. The results of factor analysis confirmed the initial assumption that the selected dimensions are related in terms of their belonging to the same construct and sufficiently different to be considered as self-contained. The obtained results show that teachers in Serbia highly value the importance of al...l researched aspects of the classroom climate and believe that they are engaged to a large extent in creating a positive classroom climate. Also, it was shown that teachers’ gender and the teaching level are the most important determinants of classroom climate quality. Bearing in mind the limitations of the applied instrument it is concluded that the results should be considered with caution and that future research should include students’ perspective, direct class observation and qualitative methods to gain a more objective and more comprehensive understanding of the classroom climate.
Кључне речи:
Classroom climate / Social-emotional dimensions of teaching / TeachersИзвор:
Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja, 2014, 46, 2, 277-298Издавач:
- Institut za pedagoška istraživanja, Beograd
Финансирање / пројекти:
- Унапређивање квалитета и доступности образовања у процесима модернизације Србије (RS-MESTD-Integrated and Interdisciplinary Research (IIR or III)-47008)
- Од подстицања иницијативе, сарадње и стваралаштва у образовању до нових улога и идентитета у друштву (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-179034)
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Институција/група
IPITY - JOUR AU - Ševkušić, Slavica AU - Anđelković, Sonja AU - Milin, Vladeta PY - 2014 UR - http://ipir.ipisr.org.rs/handle/123456789/242 AB - The goal of this research is to gain insight into the classroom climate in schools in Serbia from the perspective of teachers. To realize this goal, we set up two research questions: (1) How do teachers assess the importance of certain aspects of the classroom climate and their own engagement in creating favourable climate, and (2) which factors determine the quality of classroom climate. We considered four dimensions of classroom climate: equality in communication, social relationships between students, respect for students’ feelings and the organizing group work. The sample consisted of primary school teachers in Serbia (N=1441), who completed a questionnaire made for our research needs. The results of factor analysis confirmed the initial assumption that the selected dimensions are related in terms of their belonging to the same construct and sufficiently different to be considered as self-contained. The obtained results show that teachers in Serbia highly value the importance of all researched aspects of the classroom climate and believe that they are engaged to a large extent in creating a positive classroom climate. Also, it was shown that teachers’ gender and the teaching level are the most important determinants of classroom climate quality. Bearing in mind the limitations of the applied instrument it is concluded that the results should be considered with caution and that future research should include students’ perspective, direct class observation and qualitative methods to gain a more objective and more comprehensive understanding of the classroom climate. PB - Institut za pedagoška istraživanja, Beograd T2 - Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja T1 - Classroom climate in Serbia: The perspective of primary school teachers EP - 298 IS - 2 SP - 277 VL - 46 DO - 10.2298/ZIPI1402277S ER -
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Ševkušić, S., Anđelković, S.,& Milin, V.. (2014). Classroom climate in Serbia: The perspective of primary school teachers. in Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja Institut za pedagoška istraživanja, Beograd., 46(2), 277-298. https://doi.org/10.2298/ZIPI1402277S
Ševkušić S, Anđelković S, Milin V. Classroom climate in Serbia: The perspective of primary school teachers. in Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja. 2014;46(2):277-298. doi:10.2298/ZIPI1402277S .
Ševkušić, Slavica, Anđelković, Sonja, Milin, Vladeta, "Classroom climate in Serbia: The perspective of primary school teachers" in Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja, 46, no. 2 (2014):277-298, https://doi.org/10.2298/ZIPI1402277S . .