Attributes of internality: An alternative path to teacher effectiveness
Date
2008
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School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine
Abstract
The literature reports that individuals with an internal locus of control (LOC) are more effective in the workplace than externals, and that it is possible to increase individuals' LOC internality through training. Hence, the researchers have proposed "Teachers' Internality Training," a new alternative type of training, to increase the effectiveness of teachers. This paper describes qualitative and quantitative research with 220 Jamaican teachers that expanded the traditional LOC construct to expose the attributes of LOC that can be targeted by teachers' internality training. The paper also shows how this new expanded LOC construct suggests possible mechanisms for accomplishing this training. The significance of this paper is that it opens the possibility of a new type of alternative training for teaching effectiveness
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Teacher education, Teacher effectiveness, Training programmes, Jamaica
Citation
Cook, L. D., and Bastick, T. (2008). Attributes of internality: An alternative path to teacher effectiveness. In L. Quamina-Aiyejina (Ed.), Reconceptualising the agenda for education in the Caribbean: Proceedings of the 2007 Biennial Cross-Campus Conference in Education, April 23-26, 2007, School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago (pp. 599-629). St. Augustine, Trinidad: School of Education, UWI.