ABSTRACT
Teacher self-disclosure “refers to teacher statements in the classroom about self that may or may not be related to subject content, but reveal information about the teacher that students are unlikely to learn from other sources”. In an extension of that research, Sorensen devised a low-inference Teacher Self-Disclosure Instrument that identifies specific disclosures associated with either “good” or “poor” teachers. An examination of the resulting disclosure profiles revealed that students attributed to good teachers more positively worded disclosures and sentiments that showed a concern for students and others. No reliability coefficients are reported. The disclosure statements were not originally intended as a scaled instrument. Instead, items or statements reflecting either good or poor teachers were discriminated on the basis of a series of student’s-tests.
