Nesbitt, William O.2022-04-052022-04-05196913979483https://hdl.handle.net/10657/9011This study focused on the social status of beginning students in teacher education at the University of Houston, an urban institution, in the fall of 1968 as it related to their choices of working environments. Purposes were (1) to develop an instrument appropriate for periodic use in identifying social orientations of students beginning teacher education and to what extent their choices of working environments reflected their social orientations, (2) to ascertain statistically significant relationships, if any, between social orientation and choices of working environments, (3) to ascertain statistically significant relationships, if any, between size and type of schools attended and choices of working environments, and (4) to ascertain the nature of high school curricular experiences and preferred curricular patterns fur teaching. Data were collected from 399 students on a 34-item questionnaire; administered in teacher education classes. Tabulations and computations for each questionnaire item were reported, including means and standard deviations, Pearson product-moment correlations, chi square, and an analysis of variance. The profile of respondents revealed that age and marital status were the same as revealed in a study of a similar population at the University in 1962 and that the present group was slightly older than were respondents to a national study conducted in 1961. [...]application/pdfenThis item is protected by copyright but is made available here under a claim of fair use (17 U.S.C. §107) for non-profit research and educational purposes. Users of this work assume the responsibility for determining copyright status prior to reusing, publishing, or reproducing this item for purposes other than what is allowed by fair use or other copyright exemptions. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires express permission of the copyright holder.Thesisreformatted digital