| Abstract: | Hypothesized that sociopsychological climates would underlie teacher-bias expectancy effects. 220 undergraduate student teachers completed the Classroom Environment Scale (CES, ideal form) aimed at determining underlying sociopsychological climate preference for 2 race by 2 ability groups of hypothetical students. Ss were instructed to respond to the CES as they thought their hypothetical students would respond. Results support a 3-dimensional structure for sociopsychological climates and support sociopsychological climates as a mediating mechanism for teacher-bias expectancy. Discussion centers on the structure of and differences between the sociopsychological climates of the different expectancy groups. (30 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
