The Analysis for The Effect of Classroom Climate on The Students of Primary Teaching

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of classroom climate on students' success. Teacher support, involment, affiliation, order&organisation, competition, rule clarity in the classroom affect the success of students in accordance with this main aim. This research has analyzed the effect of classroom climate on success in terms of secondary school they graduated from. This study has been realized on scanning way via quantitative method. The fourth grade students of primary education department from faculties of education at fourteen universities constitute the total field of survey. 788 students have taken place in the survey. The data collection of survey is “the Scale of the Effect of Classroom climate on Success”. This data collection tool has been developed by Moss and Trickett (1974) and adapted to Turkish by Kısakürek (1985). The researcher has rearranged it by scanning the field. In the survey the secondary schools they graduated from have been studied with t-test. In accordance with the findings, Graduates of Anatolian Teachers High School, compared to graduates of other schools, consider “teacher support”, “involvement”, “affiliation”, “order & organization” as more significant. Students' views about “competition” and “rule clarity” have no significant differences in accordance with school types they graduated. Consequently, classroom climate is affected by many variants, so in education programmes the effect of every variant (sex, demographic specifications of students, the attitude of academics, formal and informal demands of students, the location of the institution) should be considered in the applications concerning classroom climate. In addition, the importance of subdimensions of classroom climate especially affiliation and rules should be asserted. While designing and developing educational programmes, learning-teaching atmosphere, relations in the classroom ambient, task oriantation, innovation and rules briefly, the quality of atmosphere should be heeded as much as content and method.