The purpose of this study is to see, first, how the classroom culture perceived by elementary school kids could differ according to gender, grade, and experience of being on the staff and, second, the relationship between Kinetic School Drawing(KSD) and the classroom culture. The subjects for this study are 854 students of all grades in an elementary school in Daegu who took the tests of KSD and the classroom culture from March 24 through April 4 of 2008. The data were analyzed by frequency analysis, factor analysis, t-test, One-Way ANOVA, Scheffe test as a posttest, and Discriminant analysis. The main findings of the study were as follows. First, the degree of classroom culture perceived by elementary school students is shown average or higher with the sub-categorical degrees of friend-oriented culture as the highest, academic-oriented culture the middle, and mass media-oriented culture as the lowest. Second, as to gender, girls regarded the friend-oriented culture higher than boys while 1st graders regarded academic-oriented culture and friend-oriented culture higher than 2nd and 6th graders. The leader group being on the staff of the classroom exhibited a higher degree on academic, friend and mass media-oriented culture than those not on the staff. Third, the 28 variables of KSD showed a discrimination with 78.3% to predict the degree of academic-oriented culture, in that the low level group with 74.4% and the high level group with 81% of prediction.
Key Words: Classroom Culture, Academic-Oriented Culture, Friend-Oriented Culture, Mass Media-Oriented Culture, Kinetic School Drawing