Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

Publication Date

7-19-1972

Abstract

Pupil control, one form of social control, has been identified as an indicator of the educational atmosphere in a school. In this study teacher perceptions of pupil control were measured by responses to the Pupil Control Ideology Form developed by Willower, Eidell, and Hoy. This form ranks teacher control ideology on a continuum from custodialism to humanism. Teachers in nine schools--three elementary, three junior high, and three senior high--in the Albuquerque Public School District served as subjects in this study. The schools were stratified according to the socio-economic status of their clients. At each grade level, three socio-economic groups were represented. Data were collected by questionnaire. Teachers completed three forms for this study, a Personal Data Sheet, the Pupil Control Ideology Form, and the Teacher Efficacy Scale. Relationships between the pupil control ideology of teachers and certain characteristics of participants in the school as well as certain variables of the organization were analyzed using one way analysis of variance and unweighted means analysis of variance. The weight of the evidence indicated differences as predicted in six of the seven hypotheses using the .05 level of significance. Some significant findings of the study follow. Teachers perceived control of students more custodially in the junior high schools than at any other level. Also, teachers at the junior high level had the lowest sense of personal efficacy. Teachers who felt in control of their own destiny perceived students to be more self-determining. This humanistic control ideology persisted even when teachers of different ages were compared. Teachers with a high sense of personal effectiveness; therefore appeared to be less custodial. Additionally, teachers of Non-Anglo students from a low socio-economic status were more custodial than teachers of Anglo upper class students. Four researchable hypotheses were generated by this study which beg for further investigation. One such hypothesis is: As teacher need for behavior control increases, rule bound behavior and instructional goal displacement will increase.

Document Type

Dissertation

Language

English

Degree Name

Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences

First Committee Member (Chair)

Martin Burlingame

Second Committee Member

Lawrence F. Locke

Third Committee Member

Keith Auger

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