Abstract
This research was undertaken to determine i (1) what is now being done in selected doctoral programs to prepare graduates for college teaching positions; (2) what has been done in the past; and (3) how the people involved in these programs as students and directors feel these programs might be made more beneficial to future candidates. Information forms were used to gather the needed data from the three selected populations. The participants were department chairmen from the departments of chemistry, economics; education, engineering, English, mathematics, and philosophy; selected faculty members from these departments; and students of randomly selected faculty members. Of the 303 people included in the departmental survey, 243, or 80.2 per cent completed and returned their forms. The faculty participants showed a return of 78.4 per cent with 353 of 450 people responding. The student groups surveyed provided information about the actual application of characteristics identified by the faculty members in their classroom teaching. The information gathered from these three forms was used to analyze four null hypotheses, each in turn being rejected when subjected to a chi square analysis of the related information. From this analysis of the hypotheses a number of conclusions were drawn: (1) There is a considerable variation in the preparation provided for doctoral students both between departments and within schools. (2) Only 24.7 per cent of the departments provided any formal preparation for college teaching in their programs, and 64 per cent of these were in the departments of English and education. (3) The doctoral degree is considered a "union card" for college teachers by 80 per cent of the departments and 81.6 per cent of the faculty respondents. (4) Seventy-three per cent of the people surveyed (all of whom were teaching in 1970) found their first job after completing the doctoral degree in college teaching, though this seemed to be the least important aspect of training to many of the departments contacted.
Baldwin, Thomas Richard (1971). Preparation of college teachers in selected doctoral programs. Texas A&M University. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /DISSERTATIONS -213373.