Review of Research on Teacher Communication Styles with Use of the Leary Model.

Abstract

In 1957 Timothy Leary published his book An interpersonal diagnosis of personality. In this book a model for interpersonal behavior was pre sented. A lot of research before and after 1957 corroborated the structure of the model. Since 1980 researchers in The Netherlands have been working on the use of this model in educational research and in teacher education. This paper dis cusses results of these studies about students' and teachers' perceptions of interpersonal teacher behavior. The results of these studies indicate that teacher communication style is an important aspect of the learning environment. It appears for example that students' perceptions of teacher communication styles are strongly related to stu dent outcomes and students' satisfaction about the teacher and the lessons. Leadership and friendly and understanding behavior are positively related to student outcomes whereas uncertain, dissatis fied and admonishing behavior are negatively related. Discrepancies between a teacher's per ception of his or her behavior and the students' perceptions of this behavior are found especially for teachers with students whose achievement is

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