The purpose of this study is to find out the relationships among teacher behaviors perceived by their children, self-esteem of children and academic achievement.
The problems which one intends to deal with in the study are as follows:
1. What is th...
The purpose of this study is to find out the relationships among teacher behaviors perceived by their children, self-esteem of children and academic achievement.
The problems which one intends to deal with in the study are as follows:
1. What is the relation ship between the teacher behaviors perceived by their children and the self-esteem of the children?
2. What is the relationship between the teacher behaviors perceived by their children and academic achievement?
3. What are the relationships between the teacher behaviors perceived by their children and the self-esteem of the children, the academic achievement?
The subject for this study are 302 fifth-grade students (boys-167. girls-135) from three classes of each three elementary school located in Dae-jeon.
The insteument used in this study are teacher treatment Inventory Scale :developed by weinstein and Middlestadt, translated from Soon Hong Yoon(1988). For measurement of self-esteem of students, the scale was repeated measurement from Ok Suk Kim(1999). It was Self esteem Scale which originally developed by Bo Ga Choi and G'wi Yoon Chun(1993).
The collected data are analyzed by mean, standard deviation, pearson's correlation, T-test and Partial Correlation through SPSS program.
The main results of this study are as follows:
1. Children's self-esteem shows significant differences under every variable belonging to the teacher behaviors perceived by their children, that is, the more positively children perceives the teacher behaviors, the more positively their self-esteem was shown.
2. Academic achievement shows significant partially differences belong to the teacher behaviors perceived by their children. If teacger shows their children the high expectation, the many opportunity and choice, children's achievement is improvement.
3. The teacher behaviors perceived by their children share significant relation with their children Self-esteem, academic achievement.
The results indicate that the teacher behaviors perceived by their children make significant differences in their children's self-esteem and academic achievement. If teacher shows their children high expectation and give their chances to speak, to act and express themselves sufficiently, Children's self-esteem can be formed positively as well as their excellent academic performance can be achieved.