ERIC ED229284: The Effect of Student Characteristic pdf

ERIC ED229284: The Effect of Student Characteristic

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The relationship among teaching methods, student personality traits, and learning outcomes was investigated in this study involving 125 7th and 8th grade students who were being taught to think critically about public controversy. While background material was presented to all students uniformly, students were assigned to two different types of discussion groups, socratic and recitation, for the discussion of short cases presenting public policy decisions. In the socratic discussions students were forced to take positions and defend them. The recitation discussions emphasized the nonpersonal discussion of various dimensions of the issue posed by the case. Personality measures were administered to the students. Interactions were measured using a variety of tests. Findings do not indicate stability of interaction patterns in the sense that certain personality variables consistently interacted with the two discussion styles investigated. There is a strong suggestion that the appropriateness of the teaching method depends not only on the student’s personality traits, but on the learning outcome to be measured.

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• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 2/9/1968
• Year: 1968
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Thinking, Educational Research, Junior High Schools, Personality Traits, Social Studies, Student Characteristics, Teaching Methods

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