The Relationship Between Supervisory Ratings and the Personality of Female Student Teachers

Abstract

This study investigated relationships between the California Psychological Inventory and Supervisory ratings of student teaching. Subjects were 77 female student teachers. A similar group of 78 subjects comprised the cross‐validational sample. Canonical analysis was used to accomplish optimal weighting of predictor and criterion variables. A canonical correlation of .52 between three variables and the composite criterion was significant at the .001 level. Employing the computed equation with cross‐validation samples, a correlation of .38, significant at the .05 level, was obtained. Results indicated that certain aspects of the American system of training teachers might be reinforcing dogmatic tendencies of student teachers.