Students' Attitudes to Courses in Departments of Education in Universities

S ummary . The present paper is an interim report on a long‐term plan to investigate the attitudes of students to the courses they undertake in university departments of education. The report is concerned primarily to compare the attitudes of students at the University College of North Staffordshire, to their ‘concurrent’ course with those of students in the University of London to their post‐graduate course. An attitude scale was produced using a combination of both Thurstone and Likert methods of scale construction, and was administered (a) to a group of London students at the beginning and end of their course in October, 1956, and June, 1957, and (b) to a group of Keele students at the beginning of their course in October, 1957. In the first instance, the data obtained have been examined from the point of view of (a) the attitude of the whole group to the whole scale, (b) the attitude of Faculty groups to the whole scale, and (c) the attitude of the whole group to individual items of the scale. The initial attitudes of the London students have also been compared (a) with those they expressed at the end of their course, and (b) with the initial attitudes of the Keele students

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