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Variables Related to Probable Success in Teaching
Author(s) -
Stiffler Elizabeth J.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x7700500307
Subject(s) - psychology , cognition , personality , humanism , affect (linguistics) , regression analysis , humanistic education , mathematics education , social psychology , computer science , communication , neuroscience , machine learning , political science , law
This research investigated the influence of a teacher education program on students' affective or humanistic personality growth. The purpose of the study was: 1) to determine whether graduates of the home economics education program were significantly more self‐ actualizing and open‐minded as seniors than as sophomores; and 2) to determine whether the level of self‐actualization and the degree of open‐mindedness were related to cognitive predictors of success in teaching. Significant changes in self‐actualization and dogmatism, measures of affective growth, were obtained from the sophomore to senior year. Regression models were developed combining selected affective and conventional cognitive indices of teaching success. Both affective and cognitive measures proved to be significant predictors of probable success in teaching home economics.