David Hargreaves (1967) examined the effects of streaming on the behaviour of students and teachers in a boy's secondary school. He used participant observation as his main method. He sat at the back of the classroom observing.
Some of the teachers changed their behaviour when observed. The teacher made the students work quietly from textbooks whereas usually he set written work. The teacher sent the boys to the back of the class room to show their books. The teacher 'appeared to behave quite naturally and act as if I wasn't there' most of the time although the boys noted some changes in their teacher's behaviour.
The strength of this method is that the researcher got to obtain the information needed first hand, so he knows it will be accurate. A weakness is that because both the teachers and students know the researcher is in the room, it is likely they will change their behaviour and therefore the information obtained may not be very valid.
If teacher make the good relationship with students means, they could feel better and like to concentrate on their studies.
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