45 senior undergraduate student teachers and 50 graduate teachers were each given the same two Q sorts. Each S was instructed to sort statements which were most and least self-descriptive. Factor analyses of sorts showed greater variability in the self descriptions of graduate teachers as compared to undergraduate student teachers.
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