The Possession of Certain Attitudes as Predictors of Success in Practice Teaching

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Measures of parental attitudes, hostility, and rigidity in thinking were correlated with success in teaching. Subjects used were approximately 125 female and 40 male second-year university education students. No factor related to teaching success for males was of value in predicting success for females. Three of the five scores of rigidity were significant at the .03 level when correlated with female teaching grades. Three scores of hostility were significantly related to male teaching success. There is evidence of a basic difference in the relationship between successful male and female teachers and their students. The males appear to be demanding, authoritarian, and hostile whereas the females emerge as warm and possessive. Inventories which hope to predict teaching success should take the sex of the teacher into account.

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