Assessing the Psychosocial Classroom Environment of Teacher Training Classrooms
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2020
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This study aimed to investigate the classroom environment perceptions ofpre-service teachers enrolled in different departments of a Faculty of Education andto investigate the relations among classroom environment perceptions of preservice teachers and their course achievement. It was conducted in an educationcourse in the fall semester of the academic year 2017-2018 at a state university. Thestudy was designed according to survey research design and 277 pre-serviceteachers were chosen according to the convenience sampling method. The datawere collected through the “Classroom Environment Perceptions Scale of PreService Teachers (CEPSPT)” analyzed by using descriptive and inferential analysistechniques. The results of the study showed that the departments of pre-serviceteachers had a significant effect on the perceptions of the classroom environment.Pre-service teachers who enrolled in Classroom Teaching Department perceivedclassroom environment favorable than those who enrolled in other departments.Moreover, pre-service teachers who enrolled in Elementary School MathematicsTeaching Department perceived the difficulty property of the classroomenvironment at highest. Finally, several correlations were obtained among thedimensions of the classroom environment and also between the achievement scoresof pre-service teachers and their classroom environment perceptions. The findingswere discussed in detail concerning classroom environment literature.