The purpose of this study was to analyze the amount of congruence between teachers' and students' perceptions of selected cognitive and affective dimensions of sixth grade social studies classes. The subjects were nineteen teachers with 507 students in their classes, all of whom responded to the Class Activities Questionnaire. It was found that little congruence existed between teacher and pupil perceptions.
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