Classroom management and discipline: A multi-method analysis of the way teachers, students, and preservice teachers view disruptive behaviour

This study uses a multi-method approach to examine students', pre-service teachers', and veteran teachers' views on disruptive classroom behaviour. Factor Analysis differentiates between: minor disturbances, serious disruptions, threats and violence, and criminal acts. Smallest Space Analysis confirms the four factors and ranges them from most-toleast severe, with an additional core-periphery structure differentiating between disturbances created with an external implement those without. Analysis of Variance shows significant differences between the three populations. Each population's relationship to the structure of disturbances is shown in the SSA map. A mapping sentence explicates the four behaviour categories and the differentiation between tool use/non-use.