Investigating whether students who had student taught would respond differently to the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory than students who had not, this study demonstrated that subjects who had taught scored significantly higher, suggesting the experience may create more positive attitudes toward students and teaching. (DS)

This study describes an intensive 10-week teacher training program for minority group college graduates prior to teaching in the public schools. The Personal Orientation Inventory and the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory were used as pre- and posttraining measures to assess attitudes and value change over the duration of the training program.…

A stratified random sample of 84 student teachers in secondary school academic subject areas was distributed into four treatment groups according to a trichotomization of their scores on the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI). Each student teacher taught two 20-minute lessons with the same content to different classes of five pupils. On…

A comparison was made of the relationship between identified attitudes of special education teacher trainees toward exceptional children and their observable teacher role behavior in the classroom setting. Student teachers had positive attitudes toward teaching and retained those attitudes after experience in the classroom. (DS)

Two predictors of coding performance were validated when 26 trained subjects used the Flanders System of Interaction Analysis to code 11 half-hour videotapes of fifth grade classrooms. The Teacher Evaluation Scale, a high-inference rating system based on the Global Rating Scales, was also used. The predictors were scores on a shortened form of the…