Teacher Survey 1990

Changes in the education system after the political turning point,
individualization in instruction, comparison of the education systems
of GDR and FRG.
Topics: Attitude to teaching occupation in general; evaluation of
personal dealing with children; sense of well-being and acceptance
among the teaching staff; appropriate judgement of achievement by
teaching staff; stand on current occupational requirements; fear of
loss of job; self-assessment of personal authority and trust among
the schoolchildren; openness and criticism in dealing with the
schoolchildren; extent to which informed about problems, interests
and leisure activities of the schoolchildren; conveying a humanistic
life position; intent to change occupations; changes in school
atmosphere (scale); assessment of changed relations between teachers
and schoolchildren, teachers and parents, teachers and their
colleagues; concerns regarding the development of use of addictive
drugs, AIDS, nationalism, hostility to foreigners, thinking in terms
of competition, social injustice, achievement stress, status of
all-round education; stand on the education system of the GDR;
desired orientation of the school in the future (scale); preferred
forms of involvement for the future (scale); evaluation of the burden
in the occupational, social and personal area (scale); satisfaction
with personal structuring of instruction (scale); feeling of deficits
in occupational qualification (scale); opinion on individualization
in school education and on organizational and content consequences
(scale); stand on enforcement of the achievement principle in school
and evaluation of necessary measures for this (scale); evaluation of
points of criticism in the school system such as education goals,
training goals, teaching methods, learning methods, political
orientation etc.; assessment of the reserves in democratization of
the school (scale); use of democratic rights in school; comparison of
the education systems of GDR and FRG regarding equal opportunities,
achievement orientation, all-round education, content orientation
etc.; school type, subject area and class level taught; number of
hours of instruction per week; evaluation of income in comparison
with other college and technical college staff; intended occupational
or technical qualification; function in school, in parties and
organizations.