This article reports an analysis of teacher students' teaching achievement in designing lesson plans, improving teaching practice, and developing teacher competency. The research followed a mixed method research design, combining quantitative and qualitative data. It further employed a one-group pretest-posttest design in a quasi-experimental…

A study was conducted to determine whether personality variables are correlated with specific teaching behaviors as measured before and after a minicourse ("Effective Questioning in a Classroom Discussion," a self-contained package of instructional materials in which teaching skills, which the teacher practices by microteaching, are…

The article reports an experiment on microteaching and classroom performance which examined the relationships of extraversion, anxiety, and teacher training methods. The implications of previous research that there are disordinal interactions between specified methods of instruction and extraversion were investigated in the context of methods of…

In a self-confrontation experiment student teachers were put through an extensive test battery containing personality tests, cognitive tests, and attitude tests. An analysis is presented of the influence of personality on the student teachers' perception and evaluation during confrontation with their own video-recorded micro-lessons. Using a…