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Abstracts
The purposes of this study were to explore the influence of teachers'''' demographic variables on teachers'''' personality, self-efficacy, beliefs toward students and classroom management style; to find the correlation among teachers'''' personality, self-efficacy and beliefs toward students; and to analyze the influence of teachers'''' personality, self-efficacy and beliefs toward students on classroom management style. The subjects were 394 teachers drawing from junior high schools and elementary schools in the middle of Taiwan. The instruments included Gordon Personality Inventory-A, Teacher Efficacy Scale, Beliefs Toward Students Inventory, Classroom Management Style Scale. Data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistic methods, including Frequencies, t-test, ANOVA, Correlation analysis and Step-wise Multiple Regression. The major findings were as follows: 1.There were significant differences in the variables of teachers'''' gender, school, age, academics degree, school magnitude, seniority and position on personality traits according to their groups. 2.Teachers from different schools and seniority had different degrees of self-efficacy. 3.There were no significant differences existed among the variables of gender, age, school, academics degree, position, seniority and school magnitude on beliefs toward students. 4.With regard to the groups of variables of gender, school, age, seniority, position and school magnitude, there were significant differences in classroom management style. 5.There were significant positive correlations between teachers'''' personality and self-efficacy. 6.It was negative correlation between self-efficacy and beliefs toward students. 7.There were no significant correlations between beliefs toward students and teachers'''' personality. 8.Significant differences existed among groups of variables of personality on classroom management style. 9.There were significant group differences existed in self-efficacy on classroom management style. 10.Not significance differences existed among groups of variables of beliefs toward students on classroom management style. 11.The best predictors for classroom management style were self-efficacy and responsibility. Based on the results of this study, this study made some suggestions for teachers education, educational administration institutions and the future study.
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