VALIDATION OF AN ELEMENTARY-SCHOOL VERSION OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE ON TEACHER INTERACTION

This article is a report of the adaptation of the high school version of the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction for use in elementary scho ols. Based on an eight-sector circumplex defined by the two axes of Do minance-Submission and Cooperation-Opposition, the questionnaire asses ses interpersonal behavior of teachers and students for the eight dime nsions of Leadership, Helping-Friendly, Understanding, Student Respons ibility-Freedom, Uncertain, Dissatisfied, Admonishing, and Strict beha vior. When the revised questionnaire was administered to 1,512 student s in 39 fifth-grade classes of 13 randomly selected elementary schools in Singapore, each scale exhibited satisfactory internal consistency reliability and predictive validity for two levels of analysis (the st udent and the class mean) and differentiated between classes. Girls co nsistently rated the teachers' interpersonal behavior more favorably t han did boys.