Class climate has been focused in the context of school research for decades. One central facet of class climate is cohesion. Whereas there are well-elaborated instruments to assess cohesion in different contexts (e.g., sport and therapy), such an instrument is missing for the school context. The aim of the current article is to present an…

This study examines the effects of class properties on individual learners. Subjects represented a random sample of 800 pupils in 113 Harvard Project Physics classes during 1968, and were divided into eight same-sex samples--one for each of four learning criteria. The Learning Environment Inventory was used to obtain 14 climate scores.…

Student responses to the Learning Environment Inventory were obtained from six physics classes, ten chemistry classes and ten biology classes in eight English-speaking schools in the Montreal Metropolitan area. A three-level, one-way multivariate analysis of covariance with the 15 Learning Environment Inventory Scales as dependent variables and…