The relationship of certain personality attributes to the verbal behavior of selected student teachers in the secondary school classroom.

by Chow Wah. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996. / by Chow Wah. / Ackowledgments --- p.ii / Abstract --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.v / List of Tables --- p.viii / List of Figures --- p.ix / Chapter CHAPTER ONE --- Introduction --- p.1 / Background --- p.1 / Student Teachers in the Certificate in Education Courses --- p.1 / Student Teachers in Teaching Practice --- p.3 / Approach to the Study --- p.3 / Purpose of the Study --- p.5 / Significance of the Study --- p.6 / Theoretical aspects --- p.6 / Practical aspects --- p.7 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO --- Review of Literature --- p.8 / Overview --- p.8 / Goal Orientations --- p.12 / The Goal Theory Perspective --- p.12 / Task Orientation Vs Ego Orientation --- p.13 / Self Concept --- p.14 / "Mutifaceted, Hierachical Nature of Self-concept" --- p.14 / Malleability of Self-concept --- p.15 / Future Tense of Self-concept --- p.16 / Self-regulation --- p.17 / Self-regulation and Self-regulation Strategies --- p.17 / "Task Orientation, Ego Orientation, and Self-Regulatory Strategies" --- p.19 / Possible Selves and Self-Regulation --- p.21 / Research Hypotheses --- p.23 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE --- Methodology --- p.25 / Subjects --- p.25 / Pilot Studies --- p.26 / Pilot Study 1 --- p.26 / Pilot Study 2 --- p.28 / Instruments --- p.29 / The Possible Selves Report Form (PSRF) --- p.29 / Possible Selves Rating Scale (PSRS) --- p.31 / Measurement of Goal Orientations (MOS) --- p.32 / The Self-Regulation Report Form (SRRF) --- p.33 / Procedures --- p.35 / Design and Analysis --- p.36 / Operational Definitions --- p.36 / Null Hypotheses --- p.39 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR --- Results --- p.51 / Characterisitcs of the Sample --- p.51 / Scales Construction --- p.52 / Factor Analysis of the items in MOS --- p.52 / Factor Analysis of the items in PSRS --- p.53 / "Means, Standard Deviations, and Reliabilities of the Scales" --- p.54 / Self-regulation Strategies Measures --- p.59 / Strategy Use --- p.59 / Strategy Frequency --- p.60 / Strategy Consistence --- p.60 / Averaged Strategy Consistence --- p.60 / Correlations Among Variables --- p.64 / Correlations among measures of Self-regulation Strategies and the Other Variables --- p.64 / Correlations among Goal Orientations and Possible Selves --- p.64 / Hierachical Regression Analysis --- p.70 / Interaction of Possible Selves and Goal Orientations on Self-regulation Strategies --- p.75 / Summary of Findings --- p.79 / Chapter CHAPTER FIVE --- Discussion --- p.81 / Major Findings of the Study --- p.81 / Testing of the Hypotheses --- p.81 / Use of Self-regulation Strategies Among Student Teachers --- p.83 / Factos Affecting Self-regulation in Teaching Practice --- p.86 / Measuring Problems --- p.90 / Limitations of the Study --- p.92 / Implications for Improving Teacher Education Programmes --- p.92 / Attention Should also be Paid to Affective Domain --- p.92 / Cultivating Possible Selves that Have Positive Implications in Teaching --- p.94 / Social Comparison May also be Used as a Strategy to Enhance Self-regulation --- p.94 / Recommendations for Future Research --- p.95 / References --- p.96 / Appendix A --- p.104 / Letter to the Subjects --- p.105 / Appendix B --- p.106 / Personal Information Supplied by the Subjects --- p.107 / Appendix C --- p.108 / Possible Selves Report Form --- p.109 / Appendix D --- p.114 / Possible Selves Rating Scale --- p.115 / Appendix E --- p.117 / Motivational Orientation Scale --- p.118 / Appendix F --- p.120 / Self-regulation Report Form --- p.121 / Appendix G --- p.128 / Use of Self-regulatory Strategies in Teaching Practice --- p.129

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M.Ed. (Psychology of Education) / Education is fundamentally an imaginative act of hope” (Purkey and Novak, 1996, p.1) and this hope is dependent on one’s ability to care enough to develop each child to his or her full potential. The intention of this study is to determine the dispositions of fourth year Foundation Phase students at a local higher education institute, and to establish how these dispositions influence their practice during their scheduled teaching practicals. The findings from this study will be used to propose a strategy for Initial Professional Education and Training (IPET) programmes in order to explicitly develop invitational dispositions in Foundation Phase teachers in training. The study is supported by a theoretical framework which investigates the notion of dispositions and the development of these through the lenses of structuration theory, social cognitive theory and attribution-based theory of motivation, and leading to the application of the Invitational Education approach. Self concept theory and perceptual theory are encompassed within this approach, and form an integral part of the study. From this theoretical framework, an invitational dispositional framework is developed to represent the inter-connected nature of the five invitational dispositions of care, intentionality, trust, respect and optimism. The research design and methodology of the study is located in the interpretivist paradigm, using a case study design within a qualitative approach. A survey is used to collect data relating to fourth year Foundation Phase students’ opinions regarding the essential dispositions required by Foundation Phase teachers in order to establish positive teaching and learning environments. Further data is gathered from two nested cases of fourth year Foundation Phase students during both their first and second teaching practicals, through the means of observations, interviews and document analysis. Each data source is analysed through content analysis in an attempt to identify the common patterns that emerge, followed by the coding of the data according to the invitational dispositions of care, intentionality, trust, respect and optimism. The opinions of the students, as determined from the analysis of the survey, are then compared to their actions as demonstrated through their practice, with a final consideration of the developmental trajectory of these dispositions. From this study, it was found that the dispositional ability to care is of paramount importance in Foundation Phase teaching and that this dispositional ability is determined in three inter- iii connected areas. A reduced ability to care in one of the interactional areas of self, others and the profession results in a decreased ability to care in the other areas as well. Upon analysis of the data, it was discovered that low levels of self confidence and limited care for the learning taking place in classrooms results in inconsistent invitational interactions between the student and the children. Lower levels of care further impacts upon the students’ ability to act with intentionality in each of the three interactional areas. Students would greatly benefit from explicit development in their reflective practice and in their self confidence, as “caring is an ethic that guides action” (Purkey and Novak, 1996, p.9). In this way students would be able to be Intentionally Inviting more consistently, and purposefully engage with children in the teaching and learning process.

The basic purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship of secondary school student teachers' manifest psychological needs and the accuracy of interpersonal perception and the self-concepts of students. In seeking a solution to the problem, the following subproblems were investigated: 1. The relationship of student teacher manifest psychological needs and the accuracy with which the student teacher perceived the attitudes of his students. 2. The relationship of the accuracy with which the student teacher perceived the attitudes of his students and the favorability of the students' attitudes toward the student teacher.

The problem of this study was to determine the relationships that exist between elementary student teachers' personality factors and success in student teaching.

The problem of this study was to investigate the relationship between the degree of authoritarianism expressed by pre-service secondary science teachers and the ways in which they spent their instructional time. This study was conducted on all students enrolled in the secondary science instructional methods course at a large North Texas area university for the fall semester of 1972 and the spring semester of 1973. The total population for the study was 55 students. To aid in resolution of the problem three purposes were formulated. The first purpose was to determine whether authoritarianism expressed by prospective science teachers was related to the ways they spent their instructional time. The second purpose was to determine if the authoritarianism expressed by prospective science teachers was related to their use of an indirect teaching style. The third purpose was to provide feedback to the prospective science teachers on the ways they spent their instructional time. It was concluded that teachers who were very authoritarian asked fewer questions and a different type of question than someone of lesser authoritarianism. The authoritarian asked questions that could be answered with a short answer such as yes or no, while the lesser authoritarian asked questions that allow the student to have more freedom in his response. Further studies of this type should focus on the teaching of questioning techniques to extreme authoritarians to establish whether they might learn to use divergent questions to teach science indirectly.

by Tse Kin-shing. / Thesis (M.A.Ed.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-91). / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.i / ABSTRACT --- p.iii / TABLE OF CONTENT --- p.v / LIST OF TABLES --- p.viii / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.ix / Chapter CHAPTER 1： --- INTRODUCTION / Background of the Study --- p.1 / The Problem --- p.6 / Purpose of the Study --- p.6 / Significance of the Study --- p.7 / Chapter CHAPTER 2: --- REVIEW OF LITERATURE / Holland's Theory of Vocational Choice --- p.10 / The Four Assumptions --- p.10 / The Six Environment and Personality Types --- p.11 / The Hexagon Model --- p.15 / Consistency --- p.17 / Congruency --- p.19 / Differentiation --- p.22 / Instruments for Measuring Personality --- p.23 / The Relationship between Teaching Performance and Congruency --- p.27 / Literature Related to Teaching Practice --- p.31 / Teaching Practice --- p.31 / The Length of Teaching Practice --- p.32 / Teaching Performance --- p.34 / Defining the Criteria of Performance --- p.36 / Factors Influence Teaching Performance --- p.40 / Evaluating Teaching Performance --- p.42 / Definition of Terms --- p.44 / Student Teacher --- p.44 / Teaching Practice --- p.45 / Teaching Performance --- p.46 / Attitudes --- p.47 / The Different Levels of Congruency --- p.48 / Chapter CHAPTER 3： --- METHODOLOGY / Method --- p.50 / Sample --- p.50 / Procedure --- p.51 / Variables --- p.53 / Null Hypotheses --- p.54 / Data Analysis --- p.54 / Chapter CHAPTER 4： --- RESULTS / Sample --- p.56 / Inter-Judge Reliability --- p.58 / Attitude Questionnaire --- p.60 / Scaling the Scores of Teaching Performance --- p.63 / Analysis of Variance on the Teaching Performance --- p.65 / Analysis of Variance on Attitude towards Teaching --- p.66 / Prediction on Teaching Performance --- p.68 / Chapter CHAPTER 5： --- "SUMMARY, DISCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATION" / Summary --- p.70 / Discussion --- p.73 / Limitation of the Study --- p.80 / Recommendation --- p.81 / REFERENCES --- p.84 / APPENDICES / Appendix I --- p.92 / Appendix II --- p.95 / Appendix III --- p.96 / Appendix IV --- p.97 / Appendix V --- p.101

Research from the fields of psychology and education suggests that a student’s mindset (beliefs about their intelligence or ability) has a tremendous impact on their setting of goals, reactions to setbacks and failures, and academic performance (Aronson, Fried, & Good, 2002; Blackwell, Trzensiewski, & Dweck, 2007; Dweck, 2000; Dweck, 2006; Good, Aronson, & Inzlicht, 2003; Good, Rattan, & Dweck, 2012; Hong, Chiu, Dweck, Lin, & Wan, 1999). It has also been found that teachers’ mindsets do not necessarily predict their students’ mindsets, namely because teachers do not always teach in ways that align with their mindset. Instead, their beliefs about the nature of mathematics have been found to predict student mindset (Sun, 2015). This may be because if teachers believe that mathematics is a subject of creativity and sense making (a multidimensional belief), they are more likely to teach in ways that emphasize conceptual development and reasoning (practices that convey a growth mindset to students), no matter their personal mindset. Whereas if teachers believe mathematics is more about the rote learning of facts and procedures (a one dimensional belief), they will present it as such (practices that convey a fixed mindset to students). The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between pre-service mathematics teachers’ beliefs and the mindset messages conveyed through their assessment practices. The study focuses on two beliefs: (1) beliefs about mathematics and (2) beliefs about ability (mindset); and three assessment practices: (1) the assessments pre-service teachers create, (2) the feedback they provide students on those assessments, and (3) the next steps they propose after analyzing student performance on the assessment. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study combines a beliefs survey with an in-depth examination of assessments, and accompanying commentaries, submitted by six pre-service mathematics teachers. Assessments and commentaries were evaluated to determine the degree to which the described (and displayed) practices conveyed growth mindset messages, accomplished through the use of pre-existing rubrics created for the educative Teacher Preparation Assessment (edTPA), along with principles of grounded theory and the research on teaching practices that promote growth mindsets in students. Results suggested that having a growth mindset had some relation to pre-service teachers’ (1) planning of growth mindset assessments, (2) use of multiple representations in assessments, and (3) providing of feedback related to students’ efforts. Whereas pre-service teachers with fixed mindsets appeared to leave (1) more technical feedback and (2) more feedback overall. Additionally, stronger multidimensional views appeared more related to the pre-service teachers’ (1) planning of growth mindset assessments, (2) use of multiple representations in assessments, (3) praising a student’s use of a solution method or property, (4) attempting a “strengths-needs” feedback structure, and (5) allowing students to resubmit work. Weaker multidimensional views appeared related to teachers leaving feedback that praised a students’ grade. Findings of this study suggest that interventions aiming to change teacher mindsets may be insufficient for ensuring teachers engage in growth mindset practices. Instead, interventions should focus on changing teacher beliefs and practice concurrently (Philipp, 2007). Providing pre-service teachers with more specific training in the types of assessment practices that convey growth mindset messages to students, as well as requiring them to routinely reflect on their beliefs and practice, may help to accomplish these goals.

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