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EFFECTS OF STRESS ON TEACHER DECISION MAKING
by
Gokce Gokalp
________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(EDUCATION)
December 2008
Copyright 2008 Gokce Gokalp
Object Description
| Title | Effects of stress on teacher decision making |
| Author | Gokalp, Gokce |
| Author email | gokalp@usc.edu; skysarp@aol.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Psychology & Technology) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-04-14 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-10-14 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Rueda, Robert |
| Advisor (committee member) |
O'Neil, Harry John, Richard |
| Abstract | The effects of stress on the decisions teachers make in dealing with authentic classroom based problems in K-6 classroom settings was examined. The study particularly addressed what strategies teachers choose in dealing with pupil behavior problems, and what influence, if any their level of stress had on these choices. The role teachers' years of experience and amount of behavior management training they received might play in the choices teachers make was also explored. Finally the impact of different types of behavior problems on teachers' strategy selection was examined.; 84 elementary school teachers with varying years of teaching experience were asked to complete two questionnaires, and respond to 3 vignettes that describe student behavior problems that might occur during instruction. The independent variables were teacher stress measured by The Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI) (Fimian, 1988), participant's years of teaching experience, and the amount of behavior management training they received. The dependent variables were teachers' probability rating for using each of the 7 strategies for each of the 3 vignettes and the types of information they used in deciding what strategy to select.; The results indicated that as stress level increased likelihood of using effective strategies decreased, and likelihood of using ineffective strategies increased. Results also showed that having more experience and more behavior management training did not necessarily lead to more effective strategy selection. Finally it was found that the type of behavior problem described in the vignettes did impact the type of strategies teachers selected to deal with the misbehavior. The implications of these findings for teacher training programs and for school districts were also discussed. |
| Keyword | stress; decision making; teacher stress; teacher decision making; experience; classroom management; behavior management; misbehavior; teacher training; behavior management training; behavior management strategies |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1667 |
| Rights | Gokalp, Gokce |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Gokalp-2298 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-Gokalp-2298.pdf |
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| Full text | EFFECTS OF STRESS ON TEACHER DECISION MAKING by Gokce Gokalp ________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (EDUCATION) December 2008 Copyright 2008 Gokce Gokalp |
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