Preservice Teachers' Educational Beliefs and Their Perceptions of Characteristics of Effective Teachers

By Lynn C. Minor, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Ann E. Witcher, T. James. 2002

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Subfields: Education, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Law

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To be or not to be … a teacher? Exploring levels of commitment related to perceptions of teaching among students enrolled in a teacher education program (2009, neutral): “In addition to the research about teaching attrition, a few contemporary research studies in teacher education have investigated the importance and emergence of preservice teachers’ goals for pursuing teaching as a career (Minor, Onwuegbuzie, & Witcher, 2002 ; Schutz, Crowder, & White, 2001 ).”
Students’ Perceptions of Characteristics of Effective College Teachers: A Validity Study of a Teaching Evaluation Form Using a Mixed-Methods Analysis (2007, background): “Minor et al. (2002), in a follow-up study, replicated these six characteristics and found an additional characteristic, namely, professional.”
A typological approach to investigate the teaching career decision: Motivations and beliefs about teaching of prospective teacher candidates (2012, background): “This research suggested that generally PTs described effective teachers as enthusiastic about teaching, competent, using a student-centered approach in their teaching, implementing effective classroom management strategies and possessing great content and pedagogical knowledge (Minor et al., 2002).”
The characteristics of effective english teachers as perceived by high school teachers and students in Korea (2006, background): “, 1993), males and females (Witcher et al., 2001; Minor et al., 2002), good students and weaker students (Koutsoulis, 2003), and students with different majors (Check, 1986) held different views on what characterizes effective teachers.”
The change in epistemological beliefs and beliefs about teaching and learning: a study among pre-service teachers (2009, background): “This view stresses the importance of students' efforts to make sense of their experiences and the teachers' role in facilitating that process (Brooks 2002 ; Minor, Onwuegbuzie, Witcher, & James, 2002 ).”
Making sense of teaching through metaphors: a review across three studies (2010, methodology): “…narrative accounts (Kelchtermans, 2005); matching images of themselves with drawings of other occupations, e.g., animal keeper or entertainer (Ben-Peretz et al., 2003); portfolio essays (Parsons et al., 2004); questionnaires and surveys (Minor et al., 2002); or open-ended responses (Bozlk, 2002).”