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Classroom environment; Student perceptions
Research and evaluation within the context of science education traditionally relies on assessment of academic achievement and other valued learning outcomes. However, these educational measures do not give a complete view of students’ educational experience. In particular, students’ perceptions of their school experience are also significant. Researchers have made considerable progress over the past 40 years in both conceptualizing and assessing determinants of the psychosocial learning environment in classrooms and schools (see Fraser 2012). This has in turn led to development and validation of a variety of robust instruments that measure the learning environment in a range of contexts. Early learning environment instruments include the Learning Environment Inventory (LEI) developed by Herbert Walberg (1979) and the Classroom Environment Scale developed by Rudolf Moos (1979).
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Moos RH (1979) Evaluating educational environments: procedures measures findings and policy implications. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
Walberg HJ (ed) (1979) Educational environments and effects: evaluation, policy, and productivity. McCutchan, Berkeley
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Zandvliet, D. (2014). Learning Environment Instruments. In: Gunstone, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Science Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6165-0_200-2
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