Teachers View Students: an Attitude Assessment Through Personality Profiles

The attitudes of 52 evening college faculty members at three state universities were obtained through their descriptions of an ideal college student and a typical adult evening college student on an adjective check list. Results were reported in terms of per sonality profiles of the two student types, and significant differ ences were found on 19 of the 22 experimental scales used for analysis of the data. These faculty members had a generally less favorable attitude toward adult students than they had toward their ideal conception of a college student. Therefore, the general purposes of the study were achieved. Faculty attitudes could be assessed by means of a personality inventory, which discriminated between relevant concepts, and some expected differences between these concepts were found.