An Evaluation of Selected Aspects of the Young Teacher Inventory.
This research studied selected aspects of the Young Teacher Inventory, a 100-item instrument which purportedly discriminates between teachers with strong and weak predispositions to participate in planning. One hundred items were crossvalidated against three samples of 100 subjects from among the 457 elementary, junior, and senior high teachers of the Danville (Illinois) Public Schools. Hoyt’s reliabilities and the intercorrelation matrix for subtests were analyzed. Results of the item analysis by the investigator revealed higher subtests reliabilities and higher subtests relationships between subtests than were reported by Young.