Enhancing positive outlook towards the teaching profession of trainee teachers through the use of educational films and workshops
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2008-06
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Addis Ababa Universty
Abstract
This paper presents a quasi nonequivalent groups experimental study to enhance positive
outlook towards the teaching profession of trainee teachers through the use of educational
films and workshop. A total of 21 students for the intervention group and 65 students for the
comparison group were selected using multi-stage sampling technique for the study. There
was an intervention for a period of one month for the intervention group. The significance
difference in outlook towards the teaching profession before and after the intervention was
determined using independent samples t-test and paired sample t-test. Percentage
comparisons were also made to see the difference before and after the intervention. The
quantitative findings were also reinforced by qualitative data. A significant difference in
positive outlook towards teaching was observed between the comparison and intervention
groups and within the intervention group after the intervention when compared with the
results before the intervention. The findings of the study suggest that trainee teachers in the
intervention group have shown more positive outlook towards their future profession after
the intervention than that of trainee teachers in the control group and their own results before the intervention
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Teaching profession