Secondary education md: students’ expectations on their initial teacher training
Abstract
In this paper we contribute to the improvement of the initial teacher training processes with an empirical research on future teachers' training expectations of the general competences established in the Master’s programme for the training of secondary teachers. 353 students from this Master’s programme at the University of Córdoba were surveyed during two academic courses: 2009-2010 and 2010-2011. By using a Likert scale questionnaire we identified several sets of opinions; which could be considered as distinct subdomains within the initial thinking on the teaching competences. The first results indicate the existence of high expectations in most competences; although significant differences were also identified among the various sets. We also noted the existence of a main factor; which represents most of the variables in the set (basic general competences); as well as two secondary factors that included the rest (secondary competences).
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