A Study of Relationships among Pupil-perceided TeacherPersonality,Classroom Climate and Student Engagement in Elementary Schools

• Main Authors: Ting-fang Kuo, 郭庭芳
• Other Authors: Xin-Hui Zheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55220189360978596744

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 教育學系課程與教學碩士班 === 99 === This Study aimed to illustrate the existing circumstances of elementary students'' perception to the teacher’s personality, classroom ambience, and student engagement; along with the differences among elementary students with different backgrounds, the relationships between two groups, and assumptions. A questionnaire was used in this study, and the respondents were from four elementary schools of Southern Taiwan. 1200 elementary students were chosen via stratified random sampling method. The result showed that the tendency of elementary students'' perception to the teacher’s personality was statistically significant, and "conscientiousness" was prominent compared to other traits; the tendency of elementary students'' perception to classroom ambience was statistically significant, and "class coherence" was prominent compared to other items; the tendency of elementary students'' perception to student engagement was statistically significant, and "seeing purpose of engagement" was prominent compared to other items. It showed significant differences in fields including gender, grade, teacher’s gender, the scale of the class, the scale of the school, and the city/county where the school locates of the respondents while perceiving the teacher’s personality. It also showed significant differences in fields including gender, grade, the scale of the class, the scale of the school, and the city/county where the school locates of the respondents while perceiving classroom ambience and student engagement. The strongest predictive power for classroom ambiance on teacher''s personality lied in "agreeableness" and "emotional stability." Meanwhile, "agreeableness" held no significant predictive power toward "Class order and creativity," "learning activities," "class coherence" and "peer interaction." The strongest predictive power for student engagement on class ambience lied in "class coherence." Elementary students'' perception to teacher''s personality had a relatively high correlation with class ambience and student engagement. Elementary students'' perception to class ambience also had a relatively high correlation with student engagement. To conclude, this thesis gave suggestions specifically for educational administrative departments, elementary schools and further studies for future reference.