20 students enrolled in student teaching at the University of Georgia rated 11 concepts on a semantic differential with 12 adjective pairs. These ratings, obtained 15 times during a 7-wk. period of student teaching, suggest that student teachers showed affective states which corresponded to the phases of their emotional biorhythmic cycle.
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