Some determinants of classroom psychosocial environment in Australian Catholic high schools : A multilevel analysis

- Dorman, Jeffrey

Title
Some determinants of classroom psychosocial environment in Australian Catholic high schools : A multilevel analysis
Creator
Dorman, Jeffrey
Date
2009
Type
Text; Journal article
Identifier
http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/37363
Identifier
vital:5980
Identifier
ISSN:1097-9638
Abstract
This research investigated some determinants of classroom environment in Australian Catholic high schools. The Catholic School Classroom Environment Questionnaire (CSCEQ) was used to assess 7 dimensions of the classroom psychosocial environment: student affiliation, interactions, cooperation, task orientation, order and organization, individualization, and teacher control. The sample consisted of 1,719 students from 80 classes in 20 Catholic coeducational and single-sex schools. Validation data attested to the soundstructural properties of the CSCEQ. Because the data were nested (i.e., students within classes within schools), multilevel analyses were used to investigate the influence of student gender, grade, subject, and school type on students 'perceptions of the classroom environment. Statistically significant associations between some of these grouping variables and some of the CSCEQ scales were evident, with student gender and grade the main explanatory variables. Variance in order and organization was not explained by any of the four hypothesized grouping variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Relation
Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry & Practice Vol. 13, no. 1 (2009), p. 7-29
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Rights
Open Access
Rights
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Subject
Catholic high schools; Catholic schools; Church schools; Classroom environment; Psychosocial factors
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