Title: A Comparison of Achievement and Attitudes among Three Methods of Teaching Educational Psychology
Abstract: A comparison was made among a modified mastery learning method, traditional lecture method, and a combined instructional method on academic achievement and attitudes of 200 educational psychology students. Two departmental achievement tests and a semantic differential were employed to measure achievement and attitudes, respectively. The data were analyzed using item analysis, analysis of variance, and factor analysis. The results indicate that students taught under a modified mastery learning method achieved significantly higher mean gains in achievement than students taught by a traditional lecture method or a combined method of instruction. Students taught under the modified mastery learning method demonstrated significantly greater improvement in attitudes toward the concept "educational psychology" and an improved attitude toward the concept "teaching."
Publication Year: 1978
Publication Date: 1978-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
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