The Past and The Present

Classroom Social Climate and Student Absences and Grades; that's the title of the article my group members and I worked on for our journal article presentation. This article is dated 1978. a research done by Rudolf H. Moos.

I found myself reading the article, Grade-Level, Gender and Ethnic Differences in Attitudes and Learning Environment in High School Mathematics by Gloria as I was reading the Moos article.

The Gloria article is set in 2005 and it shows how much the Educational research area has grown in terms of instruments and the way in which researchers conduct their research. From just being quantitative, studies have evolved to being both quantitative and qualitative.

The emergence of the CES led to the sprouting of other instruments such as the WIHIC and SLEI. Instruments custom made for the western environment and culture have been adapted and validated to suit and to be used in the Asian settings.

Though the settings and tools have changed, the fundamentals still remain; to enable educators to better comprehend the kind of learning environments they create and provide practical suggestions to improve on the learning environments for the betterment of their charges.