Here are my thoughts on my results:
After taking the TPI, it generally showed that I did not have particularly strong beliefs about any of the five perspectives but my dominant perspective according to the results is Nurturing. Followed by this dominant perspective falls Transmission, which I would agree with. It showed that my Transmission score was the highest (a score of for Actions, followed by Apprenticeship (a score of 11),Development and Nurturing (both a score of 9), and finally, Social Reform (a score of 6). I was not surprised to see the Social Reform as the lowest score for Beliefs since when I took the assessment, I could clearly identify these questions and did not agree with most of these statements/questions. For my goals right now, I do not seek to spur any social reform, I just seek knowledge and am focused on results of research, which is something I need to work on. In criminology, often our results are not applied due to criminologists not being able to come to a consensus. Policy makers in turn, do not take research results that are debatable and make them policy. I am also more focused on pure research rather than applied research, but realize I need to focus on policy implications more.
I was also not surprised to see the Nurturing results which show my beliefs are higher than what I actually do. I don’t see much room for much emotions and feelings in a teaching environment so the results make sense for my particular situation, although I still want people to go about learning in their own way and be open to communication with me and open to learning new things. I was also not surprised to see the high score on Transmission since I personally feel that you need to be given information to learn. At least for myself, transmission would be important to me, so it makes sense that it appears my action is the highest here.
Implications from this assessment are that I can clearly see that, even though I answered some questions as a hypothetical scenario, I tend to impose my personal beliefs on to others through my teaching. For example, the nurturing and societal change I spoke about above.
As far as believing transmission is important, I have experienced this as a learner. I have had classes where the professor is so straight-forward that I do not have to read the text. Alternatively, I have heard feedback from other students in the class that stated the professor was horrible, which I did not understand since I felt like the information was spoon fed. Maybe those students needed more than just the transmission of information, I am not really sure, but I hope to learn more as the class progresses.
As an educator, I think of my husband. I learn things and tell my husband about them because it helps me remember and he (mostly) enjoys hearing things. I try to relay the information as easily as possible and ask him a lot of questions to make sure he understands everything. I engage him to talk. When I teach people things at work, I also do the exact same thing. I think if we can explain things simply, then we understand it well, and learners will also better understand.
