EVALUATION OF INSTRUCTORS AND SIMILARITY OF ATTITUDES OF STUDENT AND INSTRUCTOR

Only two correlations were significant (p < .01); when the student's expected grade, student's dogmatism score, student's perception of the instructor's dogmatism score, and instructor's actual dogmatism score were correlated, with evaluation of the instructor as the criterion variable, values were low. For student's expected score, r = .28, and for student's perception of the instructor's dogmatism score, r = .21. The former finding is in keeping with that of Kennedy (2), and the latter with that of Good and Good (1 ), although unlike the latter study, the present study utilized real rather than hypothetical instructors. When these data were submitted to step-wise multiple regression, with evaluation of the instructor as criterion variable, the four predictors yielded a significant (p < .001) R2 of .18, suggesting that the four predictors are significantly related to the criterion. However, the utility of this relationship, as reflected in the magnitude of R2, is minimal.