The Effects of Action Research Proceses on professional Experiences to Foster Positive Attitudes Towards the Teaching Profession of Students in Teacher Education
Abstract:
The purposes of this experimental research were to study and compare the positive attitudes towards the teaching profession of students in thacher education, who have had professional experiences in school, by using the action research processes and the conventional processes. The sample group of this study was thirty-two third year students of the Faculty of Education, Burapha University, in the academic year 2000; they were separated to two groups, one was an experimental group of sixteen subjects, and the other one was a control group of sixteen subjects. The instruments were professional experiences plans through the action research processes, professional experiences plans through the conventional processes, and a teaching profession attitudes questionnaire.The results of this research were as follows :(1) Positive attitudes towards thwe teaching profession of students in teacher education, after professional experiences through the action research processes were statistically significantly higher than before at .01 level. (2) positive attitudes towards teaching profession of students in teacher education, after professional experiences through the conventional processes, were statistically significantly higher than before at .01 level. (3) Positive attitudes towards teaching profession of students in teacher education in the experimental group, and the control group, were statistically significantly different at .01 level. The cinclusion of this research was that the action research processes, using professional experiences, had more effects towards promoting positive attitudes in teaching profession of students in teacher education