Professional Training of Teachers: A Review of Research

The Professional Development of Beginning Teachers: Some Recommendations from a New Zealand Study

“…Indeed, some critics (e.g. Allen, 1963, Shipman, 1967Ryan, 1970) question whether courses currently offered in Education have an enduring effect on teacher behaviour, pointing out that officials responsible for these courses are seldom able to defend their programmes with anything more than opinions, impressions, hunches and guesses.…”

Analysis of Variance for Parental Demographic Variables to Students’ Total Attitudes toward Secondary Education Science Teaching and Learning

“…Two studies of relative popularity of school subjects [23][24] showed that physical sciences rank low in the preferences of Secondary school pupils. Studies of children's questions and interests [25][26], however suggested that interests in Science develop at an early age and that up to the age of fifteen the majority of questions which children ask spontaneously are of a scientific nature. Some study by [27] in the preferences of Grammar school pupils in U.K. concluded that: a) At the Ordinary Level stage, science specialists showed a preference for science and arts specialists for arts subjects but a substantial minority favoured both and the tendency to favour both was stronger among the science specialists.…”

Selection for Training [Abridged]

“…In teaching, training is now required for Department of Education and Science recognition, but this does not exclude an untrained (or failed training) person from teaching in the private sector. In the very few studies in which the efficiency of trained and untrained teachers has been compared no evidence to separate the performance of trained from untrained graduate has been found (Allen 1963, Collins 1964.…”