AQ-TECHNIQUE STUDY OF THE TYPES OF PRIMARY SCHOOLTEACHERS: I

The Type Factors of Educational Attitude

Abstract

1. The purpose of this study was to find factorsin the educational attitudes of primary school teachers. In this investigation W. Stephenson's Qtechnique was used.
2. A collection of nearly 450 statements was first made of opinions and attitudes that 130 primary school teachers had to four hypothetical educational situations. From the collection, 100 unstructured samples of statements were selected and Q-sorted by 25 primary school teachers.
3. Those 25 Q-arrays were correlated and factoranalyzed. Three type factors were extracted and each of them was twice orthogonally rotated. The rotated factors were interpreted by the method of computation of the factor scores of each statement and designated under the names of (a) compulsion-freedom,(b) generosity-severity,(c) harmonyestraingement.
4. With relation to the interpretation of factors, several problems about the methodology of Q-technique were considered.