This study examined student drawings as an unobtrusive measure of attitudes toward school. A total of 94 fouth, fifth, and sixth grade students were asked to draw two pictures: one of a teacher; and one of a teacher and a pupil, imagining that they had just asked the teacher a question and the teacher was answering it. At the conclusion of the…

Five teachers rated 9j fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students as "accepted,""concerned,""indifferent," or "rejected." Rated pupils completed the Describe Your School Inventory and a classroom situational drawing labeled the pupil-initiated question. Significant relationships were found between pupil…

Twelve teachers were selected four students subsequently labeled accepted, concerned, indifferent and rejected. Teacher verbal behavior, teacher-student interpersonal distance, and student questionnaires indicated significant differences in school attitudes among the students, but not in teacher behavior toward them. The situational context…