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AN ANALYSIS OF THE VIEWS OF SUPERVISORS ON THE ATTRIBUTES OF SUCCESSFUL GRADUATE STUDENT TEACHERS
Author(s) -
ROBERTSON J. D. C.
Publication year - 1957
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1957.tb01399.x
Subject(s) - viewpoints , psychology , personality , variance (accounting) , interpretation (philosophy) , social psychology , mathematics education , computer science , accounting , art , business , visual arts , programming language
S ummary .1.— Eighteen supervisors of graduate students ranked fifty student attributes associated with successful practice teaching. The rankings were correlated and the matrix of correlations was factorised by the technique of Correlation of Persons. 2.— The lines of reference indicated among the participating supervisors showed:(a) That there was limited agreement among them, amounting to 39 per cent, of the variance of their rankings, and (b) That there was a number of subsidiary viewpoints among the supervisors, accounting for at least 17 per cent, of the variance. Groups holding these viewpoints appeared to vary in the emphasis placed upon the cognitive, affective (or personal) and conative aspects of teaching ability, and each group was divided again into:(i) Those whose view was complex and analytical, concerned with adaptive aspects of personality, and (ii) Those whose view was simpler and more intuitive, concerned with expressive aspects.3.— Weighted average rankings of the attributes were obtained, and provide material for further research into an agreed scheme or system of student attributes. Groupings of the attributes made by the supervisors assisted in the interpretation of the factors, and were comparable in some respects with current theories of personality structure. 4.— The findings supported the conclusion of earlier researches that there is a need for an agreed scheme or system in the assessment of students' practice teaching. The limited amount of agreement found among the supervisors indicated a weakness in researches which have used uncontrolled assessments as criteria of teaching ability. 5.— The attribute group—Attitude and Insight in Dealing with Others was found, from the rankings of this group of eighteen experts, to represent for them the most important aspects of teaching ability.