Teacher Informal Collaboration for Professional Improvement: Beliefs, Contexts, and Experience

Table 9

Differences in teacher perceptions and collaboration experiences by size of school.

	One class per grade		More than one class per grade
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
School culture of shared responsibility and	5.4	1.34	5.08	1.44
Teacher, student and parent	5.15	1.22	4.83	1.31
Emphasis on inclusion and citizenship	6.02	1.09	5.82	1.11
Actual observation of each other’s	3.25	1.46	2.77	1.40

= not important; 7 = very important; = never; 6 = once a week or more.