Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1977

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

The purposes of this study were: (1) to gather reliability data on the Instructional Styles Inventory; (2) to gather concurrent validity data on the inventory and (3) to determine if either an individual's graduate preparation or his academic discipline, or both, influence his instructional style. Test/retest reliability coefficients for the Instructional Styles Inventory were obtained on a sample of 50 Florida International University faculty. Approximately a ten week interval elapsed between administrations. Relatively low reliability coefficients were obtained, ranging from .172 to .767, with only three elements (Independence, Numeric and Influence) significant at the .05 level. The analysis of the interaction effect revealed a non-significant F ratio indicating that graduate preparation and academic discipline did not interact to influence the scores for the elements assessed in the inventory. The analysis of the main effect of graduate degree also produced a non-significant F ratio. This indicated that there were no significant differences between community college teachers with education degrees and those with non-education degrees across the elements assessed in the inventory.

Extent

95 p.

Comments

Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.|College of Education|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.

Identifier

FADT11684

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