CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME INTEREST INVENTORY

Abstract

The internship training programme is one of the most important elements of teacher education programme. It is an exercise designed to expose the student-teachers to the practical aspect of teaching profession and to enable them put into practice the theoretical knowledge acquired during classroom interactions with their instructors. The entire purpose of teaching is to make positive change in students.  A teacher is presumed to be at his or her best if he or she is able to impart knowledge acquired over the years to produce positive change in the behavior of the learners. However, for a teacher to teach meaningfully, demands so much of his or her attention is an essential element in the teaching-learning process. The skill of teaching is inherent in individuals which needs to be developed through training and practice. So the investigator has made an attempt to construct and validate an inventory for the interest in internship training programme. According to the systematic validation procedure, the framed 30 items were finalized to 24 items constituting the internship training programme interest as a tool