Relationships between the Personal Attributes of and the Academic and Affective Differences Found between Current and Past Teacher Candidates: Possible Implications for Recruitment Practices in the 1990's.

Autor/inn/en	Pigge, Fred L.; Marso, Ronald N.
Titel	Relationships between the Personal Attributes of and the Academic and Affective Differences Found between Current and Past Teacher Candidates: Possible Implications for Recruitment Practices in the 1990's.
Quelle	(1995), (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Affective Behavior; College Students; Comparative Analysis; Educational Trends; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Preservice Teacher Education; Student Attitudes; Student Characteristics; Teacher Recruitment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Collegestudent; Bildungsentwicklung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Schülerverhalten; Lehrerrekrutierung
Abstract	In order to assess the effects of reform efforts to recruit more academically able teacher candidates over the previous decade, this study was designed to determine the relationships between selected personal attributes and the differences in the affective characteristics of a 1980's sample and a 1990's sample of teacher candidates. The subjects consisted of all 154 teacher education students beginning their preparation courses at a large Midwestern college of education during the spring semester of 1985 and also the 239 students beginning during the spring semester of 1991. The two samples of prospective teachers completed several measures: The Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills, the Teaching Anxiety Scale, the Attitude toward Teaching as a Career Scale, the Teacher Concerns Questionnaire, Rotter's Locus of Control Orientation, Myers-Briggs' Type Indicator, and a researcher-constructed instrument on confidence about teaching. Analysis and comparison of the two samples revealed that the later candidates reported somewhat more intense concerns about the actual task of teaching, less anxiety about teaching, and more confidence about teaching while reporting comparable levels of self survival concern, impact upon pupil concerns, and positive attitudes toward teaching as a career. Overall the 1990's candidates possessed more desirable affective attributes than did the earlier cohorts. (Contains 27 references and 3 tables.) (JB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC