A SURVEY OF ASPIRATIONS AND THE ATTITUDES TOWARD THE TEACHING PROFESSION OF GRADE II STUDENT TEACHERS IN THEIR FINAL YEAR OF TRAINING IN NORTH CENTRAL STATE, NIGERIA
A SURVEY OF ASPIRATIONS AND THE ATTITUDES TOWARD THE TEACHING PROFESSION OF GRADE II STUDENT TEACHERS IN THEIR FINAL YEAR OF TRAINING IN NORTH CENTRAL STATE, NIGERIA
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1975-12
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DHLIWAYO, ALBERT E.K.
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Abstract
This research study is a survey of (a) the
aspirations of Grade II student teachers in four
teacher training colleges in Zaria and Kaduna,
North Central State, Nigeria and (b) their attitudes
toward the teaching profession. The researcher
hypothesized that:
1. There is no relationship between the
high aspirations of student teachers
in this study and the educational
level of their parents.
2. The aspirations of female student
teachers in the study are lower than
those of their male counterparts.
3. Female student teachers in this study
have a more positive attitude toward
the teaching profession than their
male counterparts.
A 27 item questionare (STAR) was constructed
and data was collected from 200 form 5 student
teachers from the following colleges:
Bassawa Teachers' College, Zaria
Women Teachers' College, Zaria
Kaduna Teachers' College, Kaduna
Women Teachers' College, Kaduna.
The sample consisted of 100 male and 100 female
student teachers.
The analysis of data revealed that from the
sample of 200 respondents only 12 of them have
parents with university education. The majority
of the respondents' parents had little or no
education. Out of the 12 respondents whose fathers
had university education only one recorded a
higher educational aspiration. Higher aspirations
were taken to mean an education above the Grade
II teaching certificate that the respondents
will get at the end of their training programme.
The data also revealed that out of 24 respondents
who recorded higher aspirations only 4 had
parents with secondary or university education.
Further statistical tests were carried out to
prove the significance of the results. A X2 of
7.12 and a probability of less than .01 were
obtained. The resarcher concluded that a probability
of .01 meant that there was a significant
difference between the tested variables i.e.
high educational aspirations of the students and
the educational level of the parents; thus the
hypothesis was accepted.
The analysis of data also revealed that of
the 200 respondents, 74% of the males had high
vocational aspirations while only 19% of the
females showed the same trend. The gap between
the two groups was so great that the hypothesis
that a lower percentage of female student teachers
in the study have high aspirations was
accepted.
It was also found that there was no difference
between male and female student teachers'
attitudes toward the teaching profession. Both
groups scored (male 44.85), (female 45.30) on the
attitude inventory and when these results were
treated statistically a X2 of .002 and a probability
of -95 were revealed. The researcher
rejected the hypothesis that female student
teachers had a more positive attitude to the
teaching profession than their male counterparts.
On the basis of the above findings the
researcher made some recommendations.
Description
Submitted In Partial Fulfilment of the
Requirements for the Degree of MASTER
OF EDUCATION (GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING)
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA
December, 1975.
Keywords
A SURVEY,, ASPIRATIONS,, ATTITUDES,, TEACHING,, PROFESSION,, TEACHERS,, TRAINING,, NORTH CENTRAL,, NIGERIA