Pupil's Assessment of Teaching and of Him/Herself as Learner – Relevant Items in the Teacher's Creation of Effective Learning Environment

Sa？etak The beginning of the 21st century is marked by numerous social and economic changes, new knowledge about learning and findings of various meta-analysis on efficient teaching, reforms, innovations, heterogeneous classes and intercultural schools as well as high expectations of teachers and schools. Hence, teachers are coping with new challenges. It is important that a teacher can create an effective learning environment and adapt teaching to pupils. The article presents the results of the research carried out on a sample of 577 pupils of the ninth grade of primary schools in Slovenia focusing on teaching mathematics and Slovenian language. We wanted to reveal how pupils estimated teaching and themselves in the role of learners and if they statistically significantly differed in subject marks and gender. The research results showed that learning differentiation and individualization were not adequately performed from two points of view: directly by low evaluation by pupil's estimation of teaching and indirectly by significant differences in all factors between genders and, to a smallerextent by different achievements of pupils