Achievement Related Classroom Behavior of Secondary School Normal and Disturbed Students

Abstract

How can the educator be helped to focus upon achievement related classroom behavior in an organized, reliable, and communicable fashion? Academically related behaviors were described by teachers of regular (public school) and special class (emotionally disturbed) junior-senior high school students. An initial 102 item scale was used by teachers to rate 882 regular class and 672 special class youngsters. The result was a 45 item scale defining 13 factors, 12 common to both the regular and special class groups. All of the 13 factors were significantly correlated with academic achievement in the special classes, 12 of the 13 in regular classes. The results were interpreted in terms of the relevance of behavior to academic success or failure.