Vocational Education in Mississippi. Research Series

The study, involving 178 Mississippi vocational education teachers working in 12 different areas of vocational education who had been teaching three years or less, compared the work values and job attitudes which vocational education teachers hold toward teaching and students. Instruments utilized for data collection were a questionnaire pertaining to teacher's perceptions of teaching preparation, the "Work Value Inventory " by Super, and a vocational teacher attitude scale (included in the appendix) developed by the investigators. A composite rating for each subject's preparation for professional work was determined in nine performance areas; ratings were correlated with teacher attitudes toward teaching and students. Teachers ' perceptions of their preparation to work in the nine areas were also correlated with the work values teachers selected as important in motivating them to teaching. The result