ERIC ED014320: TEACHERS BELIEF SYSTEMS AND PRESCHOOL pdf

ERIC ED014320: TEACHERS BELIEF SYSTEMS AND PRESCHOOL

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THIS STUDY INVESTIGATES THE EFFECT OF A TEACHER’S BELIEF OR CONCEPTUAL SYSTEM ON HIS TEACHING METHOD AND ON THE CLASSROOM ATMOSPHERE CREATED BY THAT TEACHING METHOD. A BELIEF SYSTEM WAS CHARACTERIZED AS EITHER CONCRETE OR ABSTRACT. A CONCRETE SYSTEM WAS REPRESENTED BY A TENDENCY FOR THE TEACHER’S INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH TO BE MORE STRUCTURED, MORE INVARIANT, AND LESS FLEXIBLE THAN THE APPROACH OF A TEACHER MANIFESTING AN ABSTRACT SYSTEM. TEACHERS WERE GIVEN THE “THIS I BELIEVE” TEST (TIB) AND THE “CONCEPTUAL SYSTEMS TEST” (CST) TO INDICATE WHICH BELIEF SYSTEM THEY WOULD BE PLACED INTO, NAMELY, (1) CONCRETENESS-ORIENTED, (2) ABSTRACTNESS-ORIENTED, AND (3) IN-BETWEEN. TEN TEACHERS WERE SELECTED FOR EACH CATEGORY. THESE 30 FEMALE HEAD START TEACHERS WERE OBSERVED WHILE CONDUCTING THEIR CLASSES OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN AND WERE RATED ON A 26 DIMENSION CHART. EACH DIMENSION REPRESENTED EITHER A DESIRABLE OR AN UNDESIRABLE TEACHER TRAIT. IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT TEACHERS IN CATEGORY (1), CONCRETENESS-ORIENTED, WOULD SCORE LOWEST ON DESIRABLE TRAITS AND HIGHEST ON UNDESIRABLE TRAITS, THAT ABSTRACTNESS-ORIENTED TEACHERS WOULD SCORE HIGHEST ON DESIRABLE TRAITS AND LOWEST ON UNDESIRABLE TRAITS, AND THAT THE IN-BETWEEN GROUP WOULD SCORE IN THE MIDDLE.

THE RESULTS SUBSTANTIALLY SUPPORTED THIS HYPOTHESIS. (WD

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1965
• Year: 1965
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Abstract Reasoning, Attitude Measures, Behavior Rating Scales, Beliefs, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Measurement, Personality Assessment, Personality Studies, Student Teacher Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Styles, Women Faculty, HARVEY, O.J., AND OTHERS

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