DO COOPERATING TEACHERS INFLUENCE ATTITUDES OF STUDENT TEACHERS

Tested the hypothesis that cooperating teachers influence the teaching behavior of their student teachers with the frequency-of-change-in-product-moment (FCP) technique. Previous investigations have overlooked the possiblity of incongruent influence leading to less positive relationships of behavior in student teaching dyads. Also, the rival hypothesis that the direction of influence is from student to cooperating teacher has not been given consideration in past research designs. The FCP results for a total sample of 124 teacher-student dyads and subsamples of 43 in elementary schools and of 81 in secondary schools indicate cooperating teachers' Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory attitudes toward young people cause similar attitudes of student teachers to shift in the congruent direction. (25 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1969 American Psychological Association.