The teachable pupil survey: A technique for assessing teachers' perceptions of pupil attributes

The Teachable Pupil Survey was developed to measure teachers' perceptions of attributes that characterize teachable pupils. Teachers were asked to generate their perceptions of “idealized teachable” pupils and to identify “teachable” attributes from an adjective checklist. The responses were submitted to a multidimensional scaling technique, item reliability was established, and the 33 descriptors were organized into a Likert-type scale consisting of three major dimensions. The dimensions were labelled Cognitive-Motivational Behaviors, School-Appropriate Behaviors, and Personal-Social Behaviors.