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Pigge, Fred L.; Marso, Ronald N. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 1994
Upon entrance and completion of teacher preparation, 150 prospective teachers completed attitude, anxiety, and personality measures. As candidates progressed through teacher preparation, anxiety decreased and attitude remained high and positive. Introverted candidates expressed more anxiety and experienced a smaller decrease in anxiety than…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Extraversion Introversion, Higher Education, Locus of Control
Marso, Ronald N.; Pigge, Fred L. – 1990
This study identified changes in prospective teachers' (N=153) concerns about teaching as they progressed through teacher training, and investigated the relationship between these changes and the prospective teachers' Myers-Briggs personality preferences, Rotter's locus of control orientation, and selected personal attributes. It was found that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Individual Development, Locus of Control, Longitudinal Studies
Pigge, Fred L.; Marso, Ronald N. – 1990
In an effort to provide a better understanding of the possible impact of teacher training upon aspiring teachers, this study was designed to ascertain whether prospective teachers' longitudinal changes in attitude, anxiety, and confidence about teaching were related to, or possibly influenced by, their locus-of-control orientation, personality…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Anxiety, Attitude Change, Higher Education
Pigge, Fred L.; Marso, Ronald N. – 1989
The influences of students' (N=152) academic, affective, and personal attributes on their success in student teaching (as measured by university supervisors' ratings) were examined in this study. It was found that the following student attributes were related to their student teaching performance: (1) their total university and their education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Pigge, Fred L.; Marso, Ronald N. – 1991
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to ascertain whether or not prospective teachers' anxiety about teaching decreased through teacher training and the first year of teaching in accord with teacher development theory and whether or not longitudinal changes in anxiety about teaching were associated with selected academic ability and personal…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Anxiety, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
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Pigge, Fred L.; Marso, Ronald N. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1997
This study analyzed data from teachers (personal characteristics, basic skills, concerns, locus of control, and academic achievement) from the beginning of preservice preparation through the fifth teaching year. Results found developmental changes in concerns about teaching over time, indicating relationships between changes in teaching concerns…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Beginning Teachers, Career Development
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Marso, Ronald N.; Pigge, Fred L. – Teacher Educator, 1997
Investigated relationships between personal and academic attributes of and affective differences between 1985 and 1991 teacher candidates. Significant differences existed between concerns and anxieties about teaching and confidence about becoming teachers. Relationships existed between affective characteristics and gender, planned level of…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Anxiety, Attitude Measures, Educational Attainment