Date of Award
12-1982
Degree Name
Specialist in Education
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Dr. Howard E. Farris
Second Advisor
Dr. Galen Alessi
Third Advisor
Dr. Paul Mountjoy
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
State diagramming is a schematic communication tool used to present experimental designs or educationally-significant conditions in applied settings. In applied situations, public school teachers and students, and college students used state diagramming as an effective communication and diagnostic tool for educational programming. Four of five teachers showed rapid comprehension of classroom programs when the use of diagramming was compared to written narratives. College students described antecedent events present in familiar educational systems at a higher percentage of accuracy and total information presented almost doubled when diagrams were utilized. Training public school students in drawing state diagrams was initially successful. This technique was discussed in terms of ease of application and quality of information communicated.
Recommended Citation
Coates, Roger S., "Research in the Use of State Diagramming as a Communication, Diagnostic, and Descriptive Tool in Applied Educational Programs" (1982). Masters Theses. 1705.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/1705