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Research and Aims of the Course
The research itself required an early specification of aims to enable
the establishment
the features
of the innovation as objectives
amenable to measurement and thus to
assessment and evaluation. Despite
the qualifications that
made
concerning the use of
the term
evaluation
evaluation
is used in the narrow
sense of
’ascertaining the amount
various characteristics
outcomes
(1973 Chl P21 Note 7). The
constraint was quite apparent in the
problem of expressing the structural dimensions of the innovation
as objectives which could be operationalised and measured. The aims
are presented below:
a) To provide a more realistic teaching practice
period - showing the students the teaching
situation as it really is.
b) To produce a situation where the students were
accepted by the other teachers as colleagues,
present over a long time period and gradually
taking a larger share of the workload, rather
than as alien intruders adding to the burden
of work.
c) To produce a situation where the student teachers
were gradually accepted by the pupils as being
real teachers and not ’just students', and thus
it was hoped reducing the discipline problems
met by all beginner teachers.
By having university and teaching practice training
running concurrently, and in
introducing combined seminars,
avoid the Compartmentalisation
to
was assumed that
avoid facing and
views between the
student
sorting
particular by
it was hoped to
process by which
teachers managed
out any conflict
part of their training.
theoretical and practical
(Ch4 P12∕13)
Such aims do not necessarily follow from the statements referring
to the extent of the innovations which eventually are to do with
the structure of the course.