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Nussel, Edward J.; Wiersma, William – 1982
This paper reports on the use of the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI) to measure scores of teachers participating in a multicultural education institute, which focused on cultural factors in learning and the development of creative educational materials. First, the paper discusses the problem of teachers' maintaining positive attitudes…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitude Measures, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textTalmage, Harriet; Monroe, George E. – 1969
This program was developed as a laboratory test of new teacher-preparation concepts, with special emphasis on urban problems. An experimental group of 37 elementary and secondary school education majors took part, with two randomly selected control groups and 42 teachers and administrators in seven elementary and high schools in a central Chicago…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Community Involvement, Cooperating Teachers, Education Majors
Yee, Albert H. – Urban Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Disadvantaged Youth, Interpersonal Relationship, Student Attitudes
GNAGEY, WILLIAM J. – 1965
NONACADEMIC FACTORS INFLUENCING THE SELECTION OF CANDIDATES FOR TEACHER EDUCATION WERE ISOLATED AND EVALUATED. THE THEORETICAL BASIS FOR THIS STUDY WAS DRAWN FROM DAVID P. AUSUBEL'S FORMULATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EGO-DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING. SAMPLE EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY CLASSES WERE ADMINISTERED (1) A REVISION OF AUSUBEL'S PARENT…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Personality Assessment, Preservice Teacher Education
Yee, Albert H.; Kriewall, Thomas – J Educ Meas, 1969
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (Los Angeles, 1969).
Descriptors: Answer Keys, Attitude Measures, Scoring, Teacher Attitudes
Homuth, Veryle E.; Deutscher, John C. – 1969
This study found that following an educational philosophy course, attitudes of prospective teachers more closely resembled those of experienced teachers. The population used in the study consisted of 240 students taking the course "Principles of Secondary Education" at Stout State University and 84 experienced teachers who had attended…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Education Courses, Education Majors, Home Economics Teachers
Peer reviewedZucker, Stanley H.; Meyen, Edward L. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1975
The present study investigated change in MTAI scores over a 5-year period as well as geographical differences in MTAI scores between an Iowa and New England sample of special education teachers. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Exceptional Persons, Research Methodology, Special Education Teachers
Peer reviewedWakefield, James A., Jr.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
The Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI), the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS), and the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) were administered to 183 undergraduate students enrolled in teacher education courses. The MTAI was compared with each of the two personality instruments by canonical analysis. Concludes that teacher's…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Personality Assessment, Projective Measures, Psychological Evaluation
Ayers, Mary N. – 1972
A pilot study was made to: (1) examine the relationship of the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory to selected variables, and (2) measure the change of attitudes of elementary education majors after one year of teaching. The MTAI was given in the senior year to a group of elementary education majors and again to the same group at the end of their…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Beginning Teachers, Measurement Instruments
Bell, John A. – 1976
A 60-item short form of the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI) was compared to the present form of 150 items to determine whether the same constructs are common to both sets of items. Correlations were computed between scores on the two forms for 675 undergraduate elementary, secondary, and all levels education majors yielding…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Factor Analysis
SCHALOCK, HENRY D.; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT, WHEN STIMULI PRESENTED IN TESTS TO RESPONDENTS INCREASE IN THEIR APPROXIMATION TO THE COMPLEXITY OF RELATED LIFE BEHAVIOR, EFFICIENCY OF TESTS IN PREDICTING LIFE BEHAVIOR WILL ALSO INCREASE. THE STUDY WAS CARRIED OUT IN THE CONTEXT OF TEACHER EDUCATION, WITH ACTUAL CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR OF…
Descriptors: Behavior, Films, Measurement Techniques, Media Research
Wong, Lily Y. S. – 1989
The Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI) consists of 150 items in its original form. For practical and economical reasons, seven shorter versions formed from the 150 items and based on previous studies were tested on their validity and discrimination value. Responses of 90 teacher trainees, who in 1982 were enrolled at the Institute of…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Education Majors, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Johnson, Barbara M. – 1971
This project attempted to combine pre-service methods, student teaching and in-service curriculum improvement. The participants were 18 elementary classroom teachers, 22 college students, 1 Miller-Unruh teacher, 1 Title I teacher, 4 special education teachers, and a principal. The college students were assigned to one elementary (K-8) school for…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Teachers
Gordon, Jeffrey S. – 1981
The attitudes of teachers of the middle grades (grades 6, 7, and 8) are compared, along various dimensions, to those of elementary and high school teachers in this study. The sample consisted of 73 graduates of the University of Cincinnati teacher education programs employed as teachers in the metropolitan Cincinnati (Ohio) area. All of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Middle Schools, Multivariate Analysis
Capelli, Stephen L. – 1973
The purpose of this study was to: (1) ascertain and compare the attitudes, role perceptions, and values of entering vocational teachers with a comparable group of potential vocational teachers who have chosen not to leave their occupations and enter teaching, and (2) ascertain the effects of a 2-week preservice teacher preparation institute on the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Preservice Teacher Education, Role Perception
