Pupil control is regarded as an integrative theme to explain the collection of extensive observations made in schools. This report attempts to define and measure pupil control behavior, a companion concept to pupil control ideology. (Author/WM)

A survey of 3,100 students, teachers, and principals in 47 elementary and secondary schools in the Middle Atlantic region, using the Pupil Control Behavior Form, revealed a positive association between principals' humanistic pupil control behavior and schools'"robustness" (the degree of meaning and excitement students find in school).…

The important role pupil control matters play in teacher ratings of their principals' leadership is demonstrated. Guided by two hypotheses, this study found that teachers perceived their principals' pupil control views to be stricter than was actually the case. (GK)

Views schools as social organizations and, using the associated body of theory, tests hypotheses on interpersonal relations with regard to position or role. (LN)

Responses from a sample of 71 secondary teachers and 1,272 students were consistent with the hypothesis that teachers' sense of power would be directly associated with the consistency of their beliefs and behavior concerning pupil control. Some speculations were advanced concerning additional influences on teacher belief-behavior consistency. (NEC)

Reports a study which investigated perceived pupil control ideology consensus among teachers, their colleagues, and their principal, and its relation to teacher job satisfaction, using as subjects a sample drawn from the eastern and central regions of Pennsylvania. (Author/JM)

The hypothesis that highly militant teachers would favor strict control of students was tested using the Attitudinal Militancy Scale and the Pupil Control Ideology Form. Responses from 229 secondary school teachers from six school districts in the northeastern United States did not support the hypothesis. (PP)