Some relationships between pupil behavior and certain teacher characteristics

"Relationships between trained observers' assessments of (a) classes of pupils and (b) the teachers of those classes, relative to selected dimensions of pupil and teacher classroom behavior, were studied. For elementary school classes, high positive relationships were noted between observers' assessments of "productive pupil behavior' . . . and observers' assessments of previously identified patterns of teacher behavior . . . . For secondary school classes, low positive relationships appeared to obtain between productive pupil behavior . . . teacher behavior, with a tendency for the stimulating, original teacher classroom behavior pattern to show a slightly higher correlation with pupil behavior than the understanding, friendly or the organized, businesslike teacher behavior patterns."