Classroom Management Styles

Confirmatory factor analysis was used to examine the construct validity of a new instrument measuring perceptions toward classroom management: the Inventory of Classroom Management Style (ICMS). Classroom management was defined as a multifaceted process that includes three broad dimensions: (1) what teachers believe about students as persons; (2) what teachers do to enable students to learn; and (3) what teachers do in terms of discipline. The ICMS was designed to measure these dimensions with 48 Likert items. Beliefs were classified on a continuum that reflects the degree of teacher power over students. Data were collected from 238 teachers with the ICMS and a demographic questionnaire. The confirmatory factor analysis was conducted with the principal components analysis with a varimax solution. Results indicate the existence of three subdimensions. However, the three identified subdimension