A study involving 39 preservice teachers investigated changes in teacher role perception over the course of a ten-week practicum session. The research utilized the 28-item Perception of Administrator Role Questionnaire and the California Psychological Inventory to probe the manner in which exposure to school administrators affected the student…

A research study addressed the question: "If new and different information about some aspect of reality can produce attitude changes, can this be empirically verified in the case of foundational studies in teacher education?" Four hundred ninety education students, during the first two weeks of their required education classes, responded to two…

The purpose of this study was to determine the most effective way to prepare teacher candidates to work with English learners and students with disabilities by surveying teacher candidate perceptions regarding their preparation. A forty-item instrument was developed probing teacher candidates? perceptions of their level of preparation for working…