DECISION MAKING STYLES OF PRESERVICE SECONDARY TEACHERS IN RELATION TO INTELLIGENCE AND LOCALITY

Decision-making is a key part of managers’ activities. Like managers, teachers also make different types of decisions under different circumstances of teaching-learning process and effectiveness of teaching depends in which manner decisions have been taken by the teachers and this process is known as decision-making with style. Preservice education is a programme which is expected to produce effective prospective teachers who would handle the classroom in future with success. In the present study, the sample consisted of 532 regular preservice secondary teachers studying in B.Ed. institutions of Himachal Pradesh by using Decision-Making Styles Inventory of Scott and Bruce and Group Verbal Test of Intelligence by R.K. Tandon. Data was analyzed by using two-way ANOVA. Which revealed that there was significant interaction effect of intelligence and locality on intuitive style of decision making of preservice teachers and it also stated that rational, dependent, spontaneous and avoidant decision-making style was not significantly influenced by intelligence and residence of preservice secondary teachers.