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Thompson, Gordon; Knox, Alan B. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1987
Students who registered for correspondence study were studied in relation to the cognitive style of field-independence. Although results showed participation in correspondence study to be associated with the cognitive style of field-independence, no significant differences were found in persistence behavior or in student evaluations of…
Descriptors: College Students, Correspondence Study, Course Evaluation, Field Dependence Independence
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Scott, Owen – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1981
Data from 47 college classrooms suggest that the extent to which students' perceived actual locus of control coincided with their preferred locus over decisions about topic sequence and instructional materials correlated positively to their appraisals of overall instructional effectiveness. Agreement with classroom decisions also correlated…
Descriptors: Class Organization, College Students, Course Evaluation, Decision Making
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Roback, Howard B.; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1988
Investigated gender differences among first-year medical students' attitudes toward discussion-oriented behavioral science course, performance on course essay, and locus of control. Found that female students generally evaluated course more favorably than did males, and scored more externally on locus of control measure. Found no sex differences…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Course Evaluation, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education
Schniedewind, Nancy – 1975
The author presents an evaluation of an inservice course on "Classroom Strategies for Dealing with Racism and Sexism" which sought to foster both personal and societal change. The training model, containing four main elements (personal power, group support, critical awareness, and action) was compared to a control model focusing on the analysis…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Conceptual Schemes, Course Evaluation, Inservice Teacher Education
McGary, Lois J.; Parks, Arlie Muller – 1982
A study was conducted (1) to determine the effectiveness of a specially designed one-semester basic speech course on the self-image of college students experiencing extreme communication anxiety, and (2) to discover whether a difference existed between the self-image of students who had an external locus of control and those with an internal locus…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Students, Communication Apprehension, Communication Research
Mitchell, Charlie; Young, William – 1979
The first section of this two-part paper presents a brief discussion of the planning, pilot implementation, and benefits of Assessment and Advisement 100, a one-unit, self-paced, student development course offered at Mesa Community College. The course was designed to help entering students define why they are in college, determine what they want…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Community Colleges, Course Content, Course Evaluation
Baptista Nunes, Miguel, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2014, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Lisbon, Portugal July 15-19, 2014). The e-Learning 2014 conference aims to address the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Champagne, Matthew V. – 1998
This paper focuses on the Interactive and Distance Education Assessment (IDEA) laboratory, an assessment system developed by psychology students and faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York) that incorporated learning styles, teaching styles, and other measures of individual difference into the evaluation of interactive and distance…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Networks