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PERCEPTIONS OF STUDENT TEACHERS, SUPERVISING TEACHERS, AND PROFESSORS OF EDUCATION TOWARD SELECTED ISSUES IN STUDENT TEACHING

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1986
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The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of student teachers, supervising teachers, and professors of education toward selected issues in student teaching. Fifty Florida Atlantic University student teachers and forty supervising teachers from Palm Beach County and Broward County, Florida, as well as forty professors who taught undergraduate education courses at Florida Atlantic University responded to the survey. The procedure used in the study included a review of literature. Data was obtained from parallel opinionnaires and demographic forms appropriate for each population. The opinionnaire consisted of thirty-five statements with a Likert-type scale for the participants to indicate their perception as to the level of importance each statement had to student teaching. The two hypotheses tested were (1) no significant differences existed among the perceptions of the populations toward selected issues in student teaching, and (2) no significant differences existed among the perceptions of the populations toward the selected issues when grouped into the areas of personal relations, self-interests, classroom performance and organization, and teaching concerns. Chi-square distribution analysis was used to determine significant differences of perceptions among the populations. Significant statistical differences existed on more than 30 percent of the student teaching issues presented on the opinionnaire. The hypothesis for six statements were rejected at the .05 level of significance and five statements were rejected at the .01 level of significance. The hypothesis for one grouped topic was rejected at the .05 level of significance, and three topic areas were rejected at the .01 level of significance. There were enough differences among the populations' perceptions toward the selected issues of student teaching presented in the research that attention should be given to these issues by those people that structure teacher education programs. It is not necessary for the populations to be in total agreement on all the issues, but future study should be given to the impact these differences have in the process of preparing college students to be teachers.
Title: PERCEPTIONS OF STUDENT TEACHERS, SUPERVISING TEACHERS, AND PROFESSORS OF EDUCATION TOWARD SELECTED ISSUES IN STUDENT TEACHING.
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Name(s): GLASGOW, DOROTHY D.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Urich, Ted R., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1986
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 224 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of student teachers, supervising teachers, and professors of education toward selected issues in student teaching. Fifty Florida Atlantic University student teachers and forty supervising teachers from Palm Beach County and Broward County, Florida, as well as forty professors who taught undergraduate education courses at Florida Atlantic University responded to the survey. The procedure used in the study included a review of literature. Data was obtained from parallel opinionnaires and demographic forms appropriate for each population. The opinionnaire consisted of thirty-five statements with a Likert-type scale for the participants to indicate their perception as to the level of importance each statement had to student teaching. The two hypotheses tested were (1) no significant differences existed among the perceptions of the populations toward selected issues in student teaching, and (2) no significant differences existed among the perceptions of the populations toward the selected issues when grouped into the areas of personal relations, self-interests, classroom performance and organization, and teaching concerns. Chi-square distribution analysis was used to determine significant differences of perceptions among the populations. Significant statistical differences existed on more than 30 percent of the student teaching issues presented on the opinionnaire. The hypothesis for six statements were rejected at the .05 level of significance and five statements were rejected at the .01 level of significance. The hypothesis for one grouped topic was rejected at the .05 level of significance, and three topic areas were rejected at the .01 level of significance. There were enough differences among the populations' perceptions toward the selected issues of student teaching presented in the research that attention should be given to these issues by those people that structure teacher education programs. It is not necessary for the populations to be in total agreement on all the issues, but future study should be given to the impact these differences have in the process of preparing college students to be teachers.
Identifier: 11878 (digitool), FADT11878 (IID), fau:12581 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1986.
College of Education
Subject(s): Student teaching--Florida--Palm Beach County
Student teaching--Florida--Broward County
Held by: Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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