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Herron, Jason Philip; Hennessey, Maeghan N. – Teacher Educator, 2022
The purpose of this experimental study is to examine the extent to which changes in a classroom scenario influence participant reports of pupil control ideology (PCI). Pre-service teacher participants (n = 83) completed a measure of PCI. They were then randomly assigned into hypothetical classroom contexts (low time, low physical resources, and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Classroom Environment, Context Effect
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Rideout, Glenn; Windle, Sheila – Teacher Development, 2013
The objectives of this study were (a) to identify the direction of pupil control ideology (PCI) shifts during participants' beginning teaching years, and (b) to identify a broader range of "emergent" (participant-identified) predictors of PCI that beginning teachers saw as accounting for the tendency for their classroom learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Gaffney, Patrick V.; Byrd-Gaffney, Sharon – 1996
The Pupil Control Ideology Form (PCI) is one of the major instruments used by researchers interested in the study of school climate. Pupil control is a central feature of the organizational life of schools, and each school appears to have a prevailing ideology of pupil control. The PCI is a self-report instrument used to measure an educator's…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Cross Cultural Studies, Discipline, Educational Environment
Gaffney, Patrick V. – 1997
A reliability analysis was conducted of an abbreviated, 10-item version of the Pupil Control Ideology Form (PCI), using the Cronbach's alpha technique (L. J. Cronbach, 1951) and the computation of the standard error of measurement. The PCI measures a teacher's orientation toward pupil control. Subjects were 168 preservice teachers from one private…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Error of Measurement, Higher Education