Explicit And Implicit Attitudes Towards Teaching Profession In Tuition-Free Normal College Students

From the fall of2007, the government carried out a new free-fee plan for some normal College students. As the participants of the China’s important strategy of promoting education balance, all sectors of the community are much concerned about the tuition-free normal college students’ learning situation, mental status and occupation attitude. Not only their occupation attitude related to their learning and working, but also related to the country to promote the development of education and achieve education fair goal. As a special group, tuition-free normal college students’ occupation attitude has the special development law, and the occupation attitude make a big difference with professional behavior, so it is necessary to do research into those questions.In order to research the tuition-free normal college students’ occupation attitude objectively and comprehensively, we developed the "attitudes towards teaching profession scale of tuition-free normal college students", and conducted the Single Target Implicit Association Test.Study1:Developed the "attitudes towards teaching profession scale of tuition-free normal college students". On the basic of read some papers, interview and investigate the tuition-free normal college students, we establish the theoretical construct of the scale. Then, investigated400students,340effective questionnaires have been got. After statisticed, the construct is same to the theoretical construct. We investigated1180students by the final scale,913effective questionnaires show that reliability and validity of the attitudes towards teaching profession scale of tuition-free normal college students are good, it can be a effective and stable measuring tool.Study2:Single Target Implicit Association Test. We recruited80tuition-free normal college students to accomplish this test,75students’effective data show that tuition-free normal college students’ implicit attitude toward teaching profession is positive. The ST-IAT D score is0.18. The ST-IAT results revealed performance for combinations that were evaluatively compatible (teachers’ behavior words+positive words) than for incompatible combinations (teachers’ behavior words+negative words).Study3:Analyze the characteristics of tuition-free normal college students’ attitudes towards teaching profession, and explores the relationship between implicit and explicit attitude. The results show that tuition-free normal college students’ attitudes score is higher than3, it means that tuition-free normal college students’ attitude toward teaching profession is positive. There were significant differences in gender, grade, residence and family income between tuition-free normal college students. The explicit attitudes scores were not significantly associated with ST-IAT D score, it demonstrate that they were two different structures.Based on the above research, results show that:(1) Tuition-free normal college students’ attitudes towards teaching profession is a multi-dimension construct, which had three dimensions:occupational understanding, occupational emotion, occupational preparation.(2) The self-designed "attitudes towards teaching profession scale of tuition-free normal college student" had preferable reliability and fair validity, it could be used as an effective measurement of occupational attitude of tuition-free normal college students.(3) Tuition-free normal college students’ attitudes score is higher than3, it means that tuition-free normal college students’ attitude toward teaching profession is positive on the whole. The scores from highest to lowest is occupational understanding, occupational preparation, occupational emotion.(4) There were significant differences in Gender, grade, residence and family income between tuition-free normal college students.(5) The results of Single Target Implicit Association Test show that tuition-free normal college students’ implicit attitude toward teaching profession is positive.(6) The explicit attitudes scores were not significantly associated with ST-IAT D score, it demonstrate that they were two different structures. Some students’ explicit attitudes and implicit attitudes tended to be separate.