Table 6.

Raw scores of structured observations of teachers’ behaviour, ratings of class-wide child behaviour and ratings of teacher behaviour at baseline and post-intervention by intervention group

	Intervention (n = 37)			Control (n = 36)
	Baseline (n = 37)	Post-test (n = 37)	Follow-up (n = 33)	Baseline (n = 36)	Post-intervention (n = 36)	Follow-up (n = 33)
Structured observations of teacher behaviour to the whole classa
Teacher positives [median (range)]	52 (0–256)	228 (18–726)	145 (5–528)	63 (18–141)	45 (6–157)	37 (10–163)
Teacher negatives [median (range)]	98 (21–231)	58 (22–165)	68 (6–191)	99 (39–231)	105 (34–201)	113 (14–262)
Structured observations of teacher behaviour to target childrenb
Teacher positives [median (range)]	9 (1–37)	22 (2–92)	–	11 (0–47)	10 (0–63)	–
Teacher negatives [median (range)]	8 (0–27)	5 (0–30)	–	9 (0–47)	9 (0–54)	–
Rating scales of class-wide child behaviourc
Appropriate behaviour [median (range)]	3.60 (1.78–4.50)	4.22 (2.11–4.89)	3.84 (0.50)d	3.60 (2.39–4.83)	3.94 (2.28–4.67)	3.51 (0.11)d
Interest and enthusiasm [mean (s.d.)]	2.82 (0.53)	3.90 (0.44)	3.42 (0.54)	3.03 (0.46)	3.42 (0.41)	3.13 (0.36)
Rating scales of classroom atmospherec
Teacher warmth [mean [s.d.)]	2.44 (0.46)	3.66 (0.62)	2.93 (0.47)	2.69 (0.53)	2.77 (0.61)	2.53 (0.44)
Opportunities provided to share and help [mean (s.d.)]	2.02 (0.09)	2.87 (0.53)	2.21 (0.31)	2.07 (0.14)	2.22 (0.26)	2.04 (0.12)

^aEvent sampling over 18 5-min observation periods to give a total of 90 min of observation.

^bn = 113 intervention; n = 112 control; Event sampling over 12 5-min periods over four school days to give a total of 1 h of observations.

^cObserver ratings over 18 5-min observations periods over 1 school day on a scale of 1–5, where 1 is low and 5 is high.

^dMean (s.d.) (median (range) was used for non-normally distributed variables).