Özet:

Social and emotional environment of the classroom is more important to children development of personality than any other aspect of school lives. It helps students learn how to manage and solve problems. When this comes into mind, students learn how to solve academic problems. Keeping in view the importance, a scale to measure teacher’s role to keep the social environment of classroom was developed. Initially 80 items were developed from literature review on learning environment, effective communication, life skills and collaboration for learning. Expert opinion was sought from psychologist and educationist for the validity of items. Items that were marked irrelevant were deleted. A pool of 65 items were left, that were then distributed to 200 teachers, equally distributed by gender, to measure themselves on five- point Likert’s Scale. Data was fed into SPSS to check the reliability. The final scale consists of 50 items with .92 Cronbach Alpha reliability. The scale also meets the requirements of internal consistencies, factor analysis, inter-item correlation. The scale was also checked for observational purposes, as head and peer observation of teacher make a correct judgement of his work. The inter-rater reliability of the scale is .92.

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