The objectives of the study were: (1) To study the attitudinal changes among the pre-service teacher trainees at B. Ed. course level as (a) on the meaning of education, (b) on teaching as a profession, (c) classroom management, (d) on teaching learning process, (e) on evaluation practices of the pupils learning outcomes, and (f) on the quality of the teacher. (2) To study the attitudinal change in relation to such dependent variables as management, age, sex, academic background, subject specialization, residential status and presence of teacher member in the family.

The hypotheses were: (1) There will be significant favourable change in the attitude of the pre-service teachers towards teaching profession as a result of the pre-service training. (2) Sex difference will not have significant influence on the attitudinal changes towards teaching profession among pre-service teachers. (3) Institutional management will not have significant impact on the attitudinal changes towards teaching profession among the pre-service teachers. (4) The changes in attitude towards teaching profession are not influenced by their academic background, subject specialization and residential status.

400 students of 8 colleges of twin cities and districts under the Osmania University jurisdiction were selected as sample of study.

A self-prepared questionnaire was used for data collection.

Findings of the study were: (1) There is no relation between age and interests of the women scientists. (2) There is no relation between caste of respondents and their interest. (3) There is no relation between family economic status of the respondents and their interests. (4) There is no relation between length of service of the respondents and their interests. (5) There is a positive relationship between family educational status and interests of the respondents belonging to central government organizations. (6) There is a negative relationship between family educational status and interests of the respondents belonging to state government organizations over all the respondents put together. (7) The interests of the respondents and their academic and professional achievements are positively correlated. (8) The interests of the respondents of central government organizations and their academic achievements are positively correlated. (9) The interests of the respondents of central government organizations and their professional achievement are negatively correlated. (10) The interests of the women scientists belonging to state and central government organizations with respect to different fields, i.e., personal, professional, political, social and cultural etc. differ significantly. (11) There is no relation between caste of the respondents and their academic achievement. (12) There is a positive correlation between family economic status and academic achievement. But it is not highly significant. (13) There is no significant difference in the means of academic achievement of two groups (state and central government respondents). (14) There is no relation between caste of the respondents and their professional achievement. (15) There is no relation between family economic status and professional achievement of respondents belongs to state government organizations. (16) Professional achievement and family economic status of the respondents belonging to central and respondents all put together is positive related. (17) There is a positive relation between the length of service and professional achievement among the respondents belonging to central and all of them put together. (18) There is no relation between length of service and professional achievement among the respondents belonging to state government organizations. (19) Academic achievement of the respondents is positively related to their professional achievement. (20) There is no significant difference in the means of professional achievement of two groups. (21) There is insignificant negative relation between age of the respondents and their attitudes towards the institutions in which they are working. (22) There is no relation between the age of the respondents and their attitudes towards their profession. (23) There is no relation between caste of the respondents and their attitudes towards their institution and profession. (24) There is no relation between caste of the respondents and their attitudes. (25) There is a positive relation between family economic status of the respondents and their attitudes towards institution. Though a positive relation is seen among the state government respondents, it is significant. (26) There is no relation between family economic status of the respondents and their attitudes towards their profession. (27) There is no relation between the length of service of the central government respondents and their attitude towards institution. (28) There is no relation between length of service of the respondents and their attitudes towards profession. (29) The means of the two groups with respect to their institutional attitudes differ significantly. (30) The means of the two groups with respect to their professional attitudes do not differ significantly. (31) Irrespective of the category, all the respondents have shown positive attitudes towards their domestic role.