1996 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 13-23
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of teacher's interaction behaviors and their ways of expression on the student's formative evaluation to physical education class. The subjects were 37 physical education classes instructed by 33 teachers of elementary school. The new observational demention containing the five categories were added on the systematic observation instrument for teacher interaction behavior. These categories were named as “interactive”, “transmittable”, “sympathetic”, “expression technique”, and “verbal content”.
Main findings were as follows.
1) “Questioning”, “acceptance (listening)” and “hustle” behaviors showed significant correlations with some student's evaluation items. But the relationship between “feedback” and the evaluation was not clear.
2) “Interactive”, “transmittable”, and “sympathetic” ways of expression showed more positive relationship to the evaluation. However, “expression technique” and “verbal content” did not have the clear relationship.
3) These results suggested that qualitative aspects of teacher's interaction behavior had more effect on the evaluation than their quantity (frequency).
