Additional Investigations into the Nature of Teacher Clarity

Abstract

The purpose was to administer instruments, refined from a previous study, to junior high school students in widely varying geographical locations in an attempt to cross-validate and extend previous findings. Students from Australia, Ohio, and Tennessee, responding to descriptions of selected behaviors, indicated the extent to which their "most clear" and "most unclear" teacher exhibited these behaviors. The teacher behaviors contained on refined instruments discriminated well between perceived clear and unclear teachers. The specific teacher behaviors which discriminated best were used to posit a description of clear teaching which was subsequently reinforced by factor analytic results. Moreover, the pattern of clear teaching which emerged was found to be consistent over all geographical locations.

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