| This study explores the causal relationships between education, experience and faculty attitudes toward professional development at IKIP Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Specifically, it examines the effects of educational attainment, seniority of faculty, in-service training, research training, research experience, and publication productivity on faculty attitudes toward professional development. The sample size of of this study is 150 faculty members of IKIP Yogyakarta. Here are the main findings of this study: (1) Educational attainment insignificantly influenced faculty attitudes toward professional development. Therefore, the hypothesis which related to educational attainment was rejected. (2) seniority of faculty also had insignificant effects on faculty attitudes toward professional development. By this finding the hypothesis which dealt with seniority was rejected. (3) Inservice training did not seem to contribute to faculty attitudes toward professional development. Thus this study failed to reject the null hypothesis stated. (4) Research training insignificantly affected the faculty attitudes. As a result the stated hypothesis was rejected. (5) Research experience was the only variable which significantly influenced faculty attitudes toward professional development. Therefore, this finding failed to reject the alternate hypothesis stated. (6) Publication productivity had insignificant effects on faculty attitudes toward professional development. This finding rejected the alternate hypothesis stated.;In addition to the failure of this study to reject the two hypotheses mentioned above, this study also found that the six unstated alternate hypotheses illustrated in the path model were proved to be true. These hypotheses dealt with the causal relationships between: (1) seniority of faculty and in-service training, (2) seniority of faculty and research training, (3) seniority of faculty and research experience, (4) educational attainment and publication productivity, (5) research training and research experience, and (6) research experience and publication productivity. |
