Facet design and smallest space analysis of teachers' instructional behavior |
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| Authors: | Ehud Bar-On Arye Perlberg |
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| Institution: | Department of Education in Technology and Science, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel |
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| Abstract: | The essence of research in the behavioral sciences is to help in forming theories that will enhance understanding of behavior. In this study an attempt is made to construct such a theory of students' perceptions of their teachers' instructional behaviors and to verify it by empirical evidence. Guttman's definition of a theory was adopted here: “An hypothesis of a correspondence between a definitional system for a universe of observation and an aspect of the empirical structure of those observations, together with a rationale for such an hypothesis” (Shye, 1978). Data was collected through a questionnaire administered to two thousand highschool students. Facet design and smallest space analysis (SSA) were used to construct a theory that was then verified by empirical evidence. The results are consistent with previous studies done by Bar-On (Bar-On & Perlberg, 1976; Klinging & Bar-On, 1975) which employed also facet design and smallest space analysis. |
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