The Impact of Student-Teacher Pairings on Student Orientation Toward School Related Tasks

Abstract

This study was designed to identify a relatively small number of types of students and teachers and to determine if particular student/ teacher pairings resulted in students having more positive attitudes toward school related tasks. The students participating in this study were kindergarten children. Factor analysis was used to identify four types of students and four types of teachers. The finding from the analysis of variance procedure was that a type of teacher had a significantly greater impact on the task orientation of one type of student than another. The knowledge that a type of student typically differs in the benefit he receives from a type of teacher should provide a basis for the matching of students with teachers.