DOCUMENT RESUME ED 430 031 TM 029 775 AUTHOR She, Hsiao-Ching; Fisher, Darrell L. TITLE The Development and Application of the Teacher Communication Behaviour Questionnaire in Taiwan Science Classrooms. PUB DATE 1999-04-00 NOTE 13p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 19-23, 1999). PUB TYPE Reports Research (143) Speeches/Meeting Papers (150) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Behavior Patterns; *Communication (Thought Transfer); Feedback; Foreign Countries; *Junior High School Students; Junior High Schools; Qualitative Research; Reliability; Science Education; *Teacher Student Relationship; *Test Construction; *Validity IDENTIFIERS Taiwan ABSTRACT The purposes of this study were to describe the validation of a new instrument, the Teacher Communication Behaviour Questionnaire (TCBQ) and to show its use in assessing students' perceptions of their interactions with their teachers by focusing on their teachers' communicating behaviors. Participants were 1,202 students in grades 7 through 9 from 30 science classes in Taiwan. Quantitative and qualitative approaches were used in the development and validation process, and the questionnaire was then used to study the teachers' behaviors and their associations with students' perceptions and attitudes toward science and science academic achievement. Results show that all five scales of the TCBQ have satisfactory internal consistency reliability, discriminant validity, and factor validity. There were strong associations between the scales of the instrument and students' attitudes toward science. Two of the scales were associated with cognitive achievement. This instrument adds to research on teacher-student interactions by focusing on the use of challenging questioning to promote students' creative thinking ability and the use of verbal and nonverbal feedback to enhance students' attitude toward science and their academic achievement outcomes. (Contains 5 tables and 22 references.) (SLD) ******************************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * ********************************************************************************