Approximately 120 regular classroom teachers were asked to read a case study and respond to 13 questions about the student who was portrayed as demonstrating either socially immature or unmanageable behavior. In addition, at a later time the teachers completed a checklist that indicated the extent to which certain student behaviors bothered them.…

One hundred and seventy-four elementary classroom teachers reviewed a case study on a third-grade male student exhibiting either unmanageable behavior, socially immature behavior, or perceptual difficulties within the classroom, and then indicated their agreement with 40 statements of possible interventions for the student. A factor analysis…

A case study to determine the extent to which teacher decisions about students are influenced by teacher tolerance for students' behavioral characteristics revealed that teacher tolerances affected the ratings of an immature elementary student but not the ratings of an unmanageable elementary student, who was viewed more negatively overall. (SB)