Structural Properties Questionnaire – Form 4 (SPQ)

Who has the greatest influence in decisions about the instructional program?

Who has the greatest influence in decisions about teaching methods?

Who has the greatest influence in decisions about textbook selection?

Who has the greatest influence in decisions about curricular offerings?

Teachers are required to follow suggested instructional sequences and unit plans as closely as possible.

Principals in your district must refer most non-routine decisions to someone higher up for the final OK.

Rules and regulations concerning teacher behavior are uniformly applied.

Days in the school calendar are allotted exclusively to teachers for professional activities.

Academic degrees are an important consideration in recruitment of administrative staff.

Teachers are required to follow an adopted course of study.

Vice principals and department chairmen in your school must refer most nonroutine decisions to someone higher up for a final OK.

Teachers’ responsibilities and lines of authority within the school are well-defined.

Teaching in your school is a good job for someone who likes to be 'his own boss.'

Teachers receive help from an instructional media specialist in the use of audiovisual equipment.

Teachers make visitations to schools outside of the district.

Advanced degrees are an important consideration in promotion.

Teachers are evaluated according to a formalized procedure.

Even small matters often have to be referred to someone higher up for a final answer.

At this school, procedures for disciplining students are well-defined.

How things are done is left up to the person doing the work.

Teachers attend professional conferences during the school year.

Academic degrees are an important consideration in recruitment of instructional staff.

Teachers are allowed to teach only those subjects which are included in the course of study.

There can be little action taken here until a superior approves decision.

Teachers’ activities are governed by written rules and regulations.

Most people here make their own rules on the job.

Teachers are required to do paper work which could be done by a school office staff.

Teachers are allowed to teach outside of their major areas of study.

Teachers are required to maintain lesson plans.

People here are allowed to do almost as they please.

Teachers are allowed to teach outside of their major and minor area of study.

Teachers in our school must refer most nonroutine decisions to someone higher up for a final OK.

Administrators strictly follow established rules and regulations in dealing with the teaching staff.

The principal’s activities are governed by written rules and regulations.

A teacher can make his own decisions concerning instructional problems without checking with anybody else.

Teachers here teach out of their field of specialization.

Any decision I make has to have my superior’s approval.

Teachers are required to submit lesson plans.

The principal is willing to bypass regulations to help teachers.

Teachers are required to go through channels (chain of command) for routine decisions.

The principal is willing to bypass regulations to help pupils.

Teachers’ daily activities must have the approval of a superior.

Teachers in this school are closely supervised.

Teachers are allowed to violate minor rules and regulations.

Rules requiring teachers to sign in and out are strictly followed.