An Examination of the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory

109 students in a university training department were given four tests at the beginning of their year of post-graduate teacher-training. The tests were: Moray House Adult Intelligence Test. Raven's Progressive Matrices (1937). Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory. 'Teachers and Teaching' a test of attitude towards teaching as a career. The results of these tests were correlated with the marks awarded to the students in Practical Teaching and in Theory of Education at the end of the year. None of the tests gave significant correlations with the Practical Teaching marks, but all except the last gave correlations significant at the 5 per cent, level with Theory of Education marks. A combination of the results of two or three of these tests gave a slightly higher correlation with Theory of Education marks than any one of them taken alone. The results of the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory did not correspond either to American or Canadian norms. Scores on the Inventory were significantly correlated with the results of the Progressive Matrices Test, but not with the Moray House Test. The result of an experiment with a small group of students suggests that scores on the Inventory can be raised considerably by faking opinions where subjects wish to do this

Cognition · Mathematics education · Raven's Progressive Matrices · Test (biology) · Psychology · Teacher Professional Development and Motivation

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  Open Access•Hamed A El-Abd•Journal of Cross-Cultural…•1971

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