Observations of behavior of 24 teachers of 683 children in Grades 4 and 5 and of students' perceptions of instruction yielded significant correlations between teachers' systematic organized behavior with students' positive motivation, understanding of subject matter, and attitude about grading but no correlations were found between teachers' warm, friendly behavior and students' attitude about instruction or teachers' creative behavior and such attitudes.
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