Student Perceptions of Preferred Classroom Learning Environment

Abstract

This study involved administration of several preferred classroom environment measures as well as an actual environment measure on a sample of 1,675 students from 18 schools in New South Wales, Australia. Whereas preferred classroom environment was measured with short forms of the My Class Inventory, Classroom Environment Scale, and Individualized Classroom Environment Questionnaire, actual environment was assessed with the Quality of School Life questionnaire. Data were analyzed in five different ways to answer various types of questions. First, a set of analyses attested to the high reliability of all the environment scales. Second a maximum likelihood factor analysis suggested that there ..