Date of Award
1986
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Urich, Ted R.
Abstract
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.
Extent
224 p.
Recommended Citation
GLASGOW, DOROTHY D., "PERCEPTIONS OF STUDENT TEACHERS, SUPERVISING TEACHERS, AND PROFESSORS OF EDUCATION TOWARD SELECTED ISSUES IN STUDENT TEACHING" (1986). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989. 474.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_3/474
Identifier
FADT11878
Comments
Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1986.|College of Education|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1986.