مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - THE OPINIONS OF FIFTH GRADE PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ABOUT CLASSROOM TEACHERS’ DEMOCRATIC BEHAVIOURS IN FOR YEARS PERIOD

Abstract :

The results of the investigations indicated a clear relationship between pupils’ intrinsic motivation and teacher behaviour. The teachers, who demonstrate a democratic behaviour, providing high frequencies of encouraging feedback, create an environment that facilitates the development of intrinsic motivation. Pupils demonstrated higher levels of intrinsic motivation when the teacher demonstrated democratic behaviours. In this research, primary school fifth class students’ opinions concerning the frequency of their teacher’s displaying democratic behaviours have been examined comparatively. In this point, “The Inventory of Classroom Teacher’ Democratic Behaviour” which is created by the researcher, has been applied. The sample of the research which is brought out by using proportional group sampling is consisted of 20 primary schools. 1011 students in 2002 and 682 students in 2006 have been included to the research. As a result of this research, while 2002 year primary school fifth class students have evaluated their teachers more positively than the 2006 year students, in the extent of forming a participant class environment, creating democratic communication atmosphere and showing equal behaviours to all students, 2006 year primary school fifth class students have evaluated their teacher more positively than 2002 year students in the extend of being respectful to the student rights.