A Study of the Relationship between Internship Teaching Performance and Academic Grades for COP Students.

. 'The major purpose of this st dy was to determine if a functional relationship existed between internship teaching performance and academic grades for Career Opportunities Program trainees who interned in three local education agency schools and ' attended three cooperating institutions of higher edudation in _____ lir `Alabama. Another aim of the study was to determine if there ere functional relationships among internship teaching performa e and self-concept or academic grades and self-oncept. The Pearson prOduct-moment coefficent of correlation was used to determine relationships. The correlation coefficent between' internship teaching '.4 p formance and academic grades was not significant. The data for COP trainees in one school system indicating the relationship between internship teaching performance and self-concept (as revealed by Edward's fifteen perscnality variables) showed abasement to be significant. The diftta for trainees in the second school system indicated the relationship between internship and teaching performance and self-concept to be not significant. The data further indicated the relationship between academic grades and self-concept to be not significant. For the third group of trainees, the data showed the relationship between internship teaching performance and self-concept to be not significant excepting heterosexuality. The Data further revealed the relationship between grade-point average and self-concept to be not significant exCept4ng'abasement and achievement. The data collected in this inliestigation sustained the hypothesis that there is no relationship betweeninternship teach]. g performance and academic 'grades, and rejected the five variables o the hypothesis that there is no relationship between internship teaching performa ce and self-concept or academic grades and ( self-concept. (MM 4 J. Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished materials notavailable from other sources. ERIC makes every effort to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal. reproducibility are often encountered and this affects' the quality of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original. A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERNSHIP TEACHING PERFORMANCE AND ACADEMIC GRADES FOR COP STUDENTS