Date of Award
8-1979
Degree Name
Specialist in Education
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Dr. Galen J. Alessi
Second Advisor
Dr. Joetta Long
Third Advisor
Dr. Neil Kent
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
A field testing procedure was implemented using a programmed text with two high school introductory business classes. The text attempted to teach concepts related to the stockmarket. Pretest and post test measures were taken for each class. After the first class was used the text, the program was revised based upon post test data. The criterion for whether or not to revise a frame sequence teaching an objective was 11% of the students failing the post test item testing that objective. The revised program was used by the second class. Comparisons were made between post tests. Twenty-eight of a possible thirty-two test items met criterion on the second post test. The data suggest that the revised text taught more skills than the original text. Characteristic error patterns demonstrated on the post tests of the first group were not evident in the post tests of the second group.
Recommended Citation
Schwartz, Frank J., "A Learner Verification and Revision of a Linear Programmed Text" (1979). Masters Theses. 2058.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/2058
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