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Download full textCostin, Frank – 1972
This project investigated the relationship of classroom behavior to students' personality traits, students' perceptions of teachers' traits, teachers' self-described traits, and the discrepancies between students' preferences for teacher traits and their observation of them. Teachers were graduate assistants conducting discussion sections in…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Individual Characteristics, Perception, Personality Assessment
Astin, Helen S. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1971
This study examines personality differences and similarities between student groups in protest activities by comparing activists to student leaders and random students. Results indicate many similarities in personality dimensions but protesters are more adventurous, autocratic and individualistic. They are also more spontaneous and irresponsible.…
Descriptors: Activism, Behavior Patterns, Individual Characteristics, Personality Assessment
Peer reviewedWolf, Thomas M.; Kissling, Grace E. – Journal of Medical Education, 1983
Type A behavior of freshmen medical students was assessed at the beginning and at the end of the school year. Type A behavior was also examined in relation to measures of academic achievement. It was hypothesized that Type A behavior would increase over the course of the first year. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Individual Characteristics, Medical Students
Peer reviewedRice, Joy K.; Redding, Juliette L. – Youth and Society, 1975
Results do not support the characterization of the radical activist student as the brighter, better adjusted, more task-oriented individual, and supports previous finding that these students are neither the social and psychological elite nor misfits of their time. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Activism, College Students, Group Behavior, Higher Education
Lester, Lewis F.; Perez, Paul – 1977
This study examines and supports the hypothesis that diverse student behavior can be meaningfully and usefully construed when viewed from the single perspective described here as hedonism vs. the Protestant Ethic. Subjects were 1375 male and female undergraduate students. Anonymous questionnaires dealing with background, academic life, social and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Goal Orientation, Higher Education
JOHNSON, THOMAS; SMITH, LOUIS M. – 1962
AN ANALYSIS AND CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE CLASSROOM, PUPIL PERSONALITY, AND AN EXTENSION OF A STUDY ON PUPIL EXPECTATIONS WERE CONDUCTED IN THIS INVESTIGATION. SAMPLES INCLUDED 425 PUPILS SELECTED FROM ELEMENTARY, JUNIOR HIGH, AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. MEASURING INSTRUMENTS INCLUDED A QUESTIONNAIRE, STIMULUS PICTURES AS A TEST, AND OTHER MEASURES.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Psychology, Individual Characteristics
Lorentz, Jeffrey L.; Coker, Homer – 1977
The relationships between Myers-Briggs Type Indicators (MBTI), 16 personality types, and 55 behavioral indicators of teacher competency were explored. Subjects were 103 classroom teachers, grades K-12, who were observed in regular classrooms during a two-year period using five objectively-scored, low-inference observation systems. These included…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Characteristics, Interpersonal Competence
