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Q-STUDY FOR THE IRRITATING BEHAVIOR OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS AS PERCEIVED BY THEIR STUDENTS

Vijay K. Grover

Abstract


The study attempts to classify the irritating behaviors of teacher at secondary school stage identified by using perceptions of the students using ipsative choice method. The paper is technique based involving Q-Methodology put forward by William Stephenson (1953) used for handling subjective issues like the one under investigation. Responses obtained are used to find groups of persons through inter-person correlation. Findings reveal students feel irritated with less concerned teacher, dominant teacher, unfair teacher, inefficient teacher, Hippocratic teacher, terrorising teacher and resource less teacher.


Keywords


Q-methodology, Irritating behaviors of teachers, Ipsative measures, School teacher behavior, Behavior perception, Q-study.

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