Seven experienced raters were unable to discriminate significantly between the teaching behaviors of 4 high and 4 low scoring apprentice teachers of mathematics and science in secondary schools on a scale measuring humanistic/confluent instructional values. This study is intended as a general contribution to the sparse empirical literature on the relationship of professed humanistic teaching or learning values to teaching behaviors in the classroom.
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