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Classroom Motivational Climate Questionnaire (CMC-Q)

© J. Alonso-Tapia & B. Fernández Heredia

This test contains a series of statements on how you perceive the environment in your classroom, on what you believe your peers and teachers value, and on how you usually work. Your task is to indicate, after considering what happens in the class you are asked about, the extent to which you agree with each statement. Choose in the answer sheet the option that represents your level of agreement with the content of the statement, according to the following scale:

1
Completely in disagreement

2
Rather in disagreement

3
Indifferent

4
Rather in agreement

5
Completely in agreement

Initials

1. In this class, the teacher listens to our opinions and gives considerable autonomy to work.	1 2 3 4 5
2. In this class, the teacher gives exams that have little to do with classroom work.	1 2 3 4 5
3. This teacher explores what we know on a topic before explaining it.	1 2 3 4 5
4. This teacher explains step by step, and so it is easier to understand.	1 2 3 4 5
5. In this course, the teacher does not encourage class participation.	1 2 3 4 5
6. In this class, few pupils ask questions because this teacher is aloof and does not help	1 2 3 4 5
7. This T changes from one moment to the next, and this is confusing	1 2 3 4 5
8. In this class, the teacher devotes more time to smartest pupils.	1 2 3 4 5
9. Often this teacher begins to explain as if we knew what we do not know.	1 2 3 4 5
10. The way this teacher reacts when you are wrong often makes you feel bad.	1 2 3 4 5
11. This teacher praises our effort to learn whenever possible.	1 2 3 4 5
12. This teacher encourages us to tell him/her the doubts we have about the work.	1 2 3 4 5
13. This T tries to help us to relate new ideas with what we already know	1 2 3 4 5
14. This teacher gives almost no examples: so it is difficult to understand what he/she explains.	1 2 3 4 5
15. There are people who cannot praise the good that others do, and this / a teacher is one of them.	1 2 3 4 5
16. You can feel that it is very important for this teacher that we reach deep learning –not superficial-.	1 2 3 4 5
17. Tests of this subject are usually quite adequate to what has been working in class.	1 2 3 4 5
18. In this class the objectives proposed by the teacher when give us a task are unclear.	1 2 3 4 5
19 In this class, task instructions are clear, so that we know what to do.	1 2 3 4 5
20. This teacher uses frequently images, examples or anecdotes to illustrate what he/she explains.	1 2 3 4 5
21. This teacher makes you feel that you can learn from errors.	1 2 3 4 5
22. This teacher does not stop his/her explanation to help students who do not follow it.	1 2 3 4 5
23. This teacher likes us to enjoy learning new things.	1 2 3 4 5
24. In this class the teacher treat all pupils with equity, without favoritism.	1 2 3 4 5
25. This teacher often presents new or surprising information, and so our interest rises.	1 2 3 4 5
26. When we give a theme in this class, usually the teacher does not relate it to what we have seen before.	1 2 3 4 5
27. This teacher adapts to our learning pace: he/she gives us time to think.	1 2 3 4 5
28. The tasks called for in this subject are clear and everyone knows what to do.	1 2 3 4 5
29. This teacher does not allow the freedom of choosing how to work or with whom	1 2 3 4 5
30. This teacher likes us to participate, listens to us and answers to our questions	1 2 3 4 5
31. Overall, the way our teacher explains and propose the activities is confusing: it would be better to go step by step.	1 2 3 4 5
32. In the class of this teacher the work is monotonous and meaningless.	1 2 3 4 5

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