This book reports a two-year examination of a science mentoring program for seven beginning elementary school teachers in terms of their students' perceptions of classroom learning environment, achievement and attitudes, as well as these teachers' attitudes. The What Is Happening In this Class? Questionnaire (Fraser, Fisher, & McRobbie, 1996), assessing student perceptions of seven dimensions of the classroom learning environment, was modified and administered to 573 students in Grades 3-5. This research represents one of the few learning environment studies that have investigated the...