A Questionnaire Study of Graduate School Education in Teachers Colleges

Abstract

  Graduate schools for teacher education have been established in many teachers colleges to contribute to “in-service” teacher education. But graduate school education is conducted according to Article 14 of the Standard for Establishing Graduate Schools (Special Case of Education Method). Graduate school education is now in need of improvement to better provide for the development of professional skills of in-service teachers and general students.

  Our purpose is to assess graduate school education at the University of the Ryukyus' Graduate School of Education. For this purpose, a questionnaire was used to gather information from graduates and current students at the university. The items of the questionnaire concerned (1) student's expectations of graduate school and their own performance, (2) curriculums and teaching, (3) research and study, and (4) method of entrance examination. We found several interesting results from our study which have implications for graduate school education.