The Measurement of Attitude towards the Teaching Profession.

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  • 教職に対する態度の測定的研究

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1) Problem and procedure of the present study. The aim of this study was to investigate the attitude towards the teaching profession of the members of communities. We adopted as the method to measure it a scale applied after the way of Koga-Thurstone's attitude scale. In the scale the statements finally adopted and their scale values were as follows. : [table] 2) Measurement 1618 subjects were selected from five strata different from each other in their cultural development. The investigative procedure was that, each subject was given one questionnaire and was asked to mark the statements that were seemed to be the same with his attitude. The period of this investigation was from 1952 to 1953. 3) Results and interpretation. The main results got from the investigation were as follows. : (1) The differences in cultural development. All subjects were divided into five groups by the cultural development of their residential districts. The differences of the mean attitude values among each group were of no statistically significant value except in the group of mountain village community, the attitude value of which was the highest. (2) The differences in occupations. The sequence of the mean attitude values in height was in the following order : doctors, mistresses, farmers, laborers, shop-keepers, public servants, company employees. It was only between the doctors and the others that statistically significant differences were found.

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