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*Project Follow Through This document reports on an observation instrument and data obtained over 2 years as part of the national evaluation of project Follow Through. Data was collected from 70 kindergarten and first grade classrooms involved 7 diffdrent experimental programs and including 2 comparison (control) classrooms. The primary instrument used to measure teacher classroom management was organized around the concepts of the teacher's methods of control, the pupils ' responses to these methods, and the emotional climate as represented by the expression of affect. Another instrument was used by observers to record teaching activities in terms of their agreement with practices espoused by Dewey. Data were submitted to factor analysis. Findings suggest that the teacher who feels pressure to give pupils greater freedom may minimize both structure and control by reacting to he