Students' Perceptions of Liked and Disliked Teachers

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An experiment was conducted to investigate 50 high school seniors' perceptions of liked and disliked teachers, using a variation of Kelly's Repertory Test. It was predicted that disliked teachers would be differentiated more than liked teachers and that female Ss would differentiate more among disliked teachers than would male students. For the total sample, negatively valued persons were differentiated more than positively valued persons, but there were no significant sex differences with regard to negatively valued persons. Male Ss differentiated all teachers, irrespective of value, significantly more than female Ss did. The significant difference between liked and disliked teachers supports the “vigilance hypothesis” suggested by Miller and Bieri (1965). There was no readily apparent explanation why male Ss were more cognitively complex than female Ss. That male Ss designated more male than female teachers as both liked and disliked was discussed. Further avenues of research were indicated.

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