The purpose of this paper is to understand the status quo of teachers’ professional identity of free-tuition normal university students. This paper takes 528 free-tuition normal university students in Jilin Province as research subject, adopts the teachers’ professional identity questionnaire of FTNUS as research tool, issues electronic questionnaires through the questionnaire star network platform, makes statistics through SPSS24.0. This study draws the following conclusions: the teachers’ professional identity and its four factors are at the upper middle level; in aspect of demographic variables, there is a significant difference in teachers’ professional identity between different majors and there is no significant difference between genders, grades, students origins, and only-children-or-not.

Liya Yao. Research on the Status Quo of Teachers’ Professional Identity of Free-Tuition Normal University Students. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2020), Vol. 2, Issue 8: 55-60. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2020.020807.

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