The influence of teacher training on students' values was estimated through the use of the `study of values' test (1) on 150 graduate teacher trainees (100 men and 50 women) controlled for age, education and teaching experience. The test was administered at the commencement, and again at the end of the teacher training course and the test scores on the two occasions compared to evaluate the changes possibly caused by the training course. Minimal changes, except in social and economic values, were found and significant sex differences revealed in all the six values, both before and after the course. Comparison with Evens' (8) results in a similar study showed identity between the two findings in that: changes in theoretical, political, aesthetic and religious values of males were insignificant, rise in social values and fall in economic values of males were significant. The comparison showed differences between the two in that: the Indian women showed changes in economic and social values but no change in the remaining four values, while the British women showed no change in any value.
Differences between the value scores (both before and after training) of Indian and British teacher trainees may be attributable to the cultural differences between the two countries. The general pattern of value scores (men excelling women in some values and reverse in some others) survived the impact of teacher training both in the case of Indian and British teacher trainees, indicating that the training may not affect all aspects of students' personalities (which are by now well stablized) or at least the aspects examined in this study. Slight changes observed after training in the Indian sample cannot be attributed to the teacher training course alone, especially when the trainees are exposed to the whole wide world and when several other factors, perhaps more potent than the factor of teacher training, which can influence their values, have not been controlled.