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Autor/in | Stahl, Robert J. |
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Titel | Meeting the Needs of Precollege Psychology Students: Who Comes Closest: Humanistic or Behavioristic Teachers? |
Quelle | (1978), (34 Seiten)
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Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
Schlagwörter | Course Content; Educational Objectives; Humanism; Individual Differences; Psychology; Secondary Education; Secondary School Teachers; Teacher Characteristics; Teacher Orientation; Teaching Styles; Thematic Approach |
Abstract | Data taken from four studies of behavioristic and humanistic precollege psychology teachers in Florida and Mississippi are examined with respect to the objectives for offering and reasons for taking the psychology course, the topics and content that are and should be included in the course, and the audiovisual and instructional aids that are desired by both teachers and students for use in these courses. The teachers were compared in one form or another along 105 different variable combinations and were found to be statistically similar on 104 of them. When the two groups of teachers were compared with the various combinations of student response data, it was found that they were statistically similar on 83 of the 84 variables on which coefficients were computed. Finally, all 15 of the correlations among student data were found to be significant. Hence, only two of the 204 coefficients computed among these various group data were found to be at a nonsignificant level of agreement. Since these teachers were "identical" to one another and in their agreement with their students, the answer to who comes closest to meeting the needs and wants of precollege psychology students is simple: neither. This answer is significant in the fact that there is now empirical support for the argument that humanistic and behavioristic approaches to psychology are not dichotomous, but are indeed complementary to each other. (MJB/Author) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |