Evaluation with the Personal Orientation Inventory of a Problem-Solving Approach in Teaching an Undergraduate Psychology Course

1973 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 623-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Jay Gross ◽  
Andrew I. Schwebel

A major issue in evaluating innovative teaching methods has been the selection of outcome criteria. With a goal of developing students' process skills, the authors taught a clinical psychology course to undergraduates. To evaluate the course's effectiveness, Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory was utilized. There were significant changes in students' scores on 6 of the 12 scales. The implication of utilizing outcome measures consonant with the goals of a particular course was examined.

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-63
Author(s):  
Hadis Sourinejad ◽  
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Fariba Haghani ◽  
Marjan Beigi ◽  
Elham Adibmoghaddam ◽  
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Background: Identifying the factors that contribute to learning is one of the most important research goals. Learning style is one of these important and effective factors. The predominant learning styles of students in different universities of Iran are different. Objective: This study aimed to review the learning styles of midwifery students in Iran based on Kolb’s learning theory. Materials and Methods: In this review study, a search was conducted in Scopus, PubMed, Google Scholar, SID, and MagIran databases on articles published during 2000-2020 by using the keywords: Learning styles, midwifery students, and Kolb’s theory in Persian and English. Out of 28 eligible articles, 9 articles were finally reviewed. Results: Learning in midwifery students is usually done by using different styles, the most common of which was convergent style followed by assimilative style. Conclusion: The predominant learning styles of midwifery students in Iran are convergent and assimilative styles. While considering individual differences, educational planning and selection of teaching method should be done in a way that is appropriate for different learning styles of midwifery students and a variety of new and innovative teaching methods should be used.


2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia-Wen Tsai ◽  
Pei-Di Shen

Online learning is generally a solitary process without teachers’ on-the-spot assistance. To help students achieve sustained learning effects, the authors conducted a quasi-experiment to explore the effects of web-mediated self-regulated learning (SRL) with feedback on enhancing students’ computing skills, and their attitudes toward blended learning through online problem-solving. In this study, two cases were studied and compared, one a class deploying web-mediated SRL with feedback and the other without. The results showed that students who received web-mediated SRL with feedback outperformed those without feedback on computing skills and exhibited positive attitudes toward this instruction integrated with innovative teaching methods and technologies.


Author(s):  
Marianna Klyap ◽  
Mykhailo Klyap

Abstract The article clarifies the concept of “innovation”, including “educational innovation”, examines some innovative teaching methods in universities. The main approaches of implementation innovations in modern higher education of Ukraine are analysed. It also defines the differences between traditional and innovative teaching, discovers different variants of the classification of innovative teaching methods and formulates basic approaches to the selection of innovative didactic purpose in accordance with the classes, the advantages and disadvantages of the use of certain methods. It tightly describes actual interpretation of innovative study methods in the Ukrainian higher educational institutions, as well as the realization of the innovative aspects in the separate Ukrainian universities. The importance of innovation in the learning process of entering higher education of Ukraine into the European educational space is also being highlighted.


1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirja Kalliopuska

The purpose was to explore the possible relations among a creative way of living, empathy, need satisfaction, and self-actualization. 20 students of an introductory psychology course completed four scales of Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory, the Saurt test on the creative way of living, the Mehrabian and Epstein empathy scale, and the Kalliopuska sufficiency of need satisfaction scale. Several statistically significant, low to moderate correlations suggest further work with larger samples may be worthwhile.


1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1333-1334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold E. Husa

38 college freshman honors students (15 men, 23 women) were enrolled in an educational psychology course designed to promote self-actualization through self-awareness and exploration procedures. Pre- and post-course administrations of the Personal Orientation Inventory showed statistically significant positive changes in self-actualization values. Shostrom's clinically judged Non-self-actualized and Self-actualized groups were used as normative samples. Pre-course scores of the students were comparable to scores of the former norms whereas students' scores after the course were comparable to the Self-actualized norms, mean changes being ≥ 2 points, range of .7 to 8.6.


1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 1139-1153 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Wanous ◽  
Arnon E. Reichers ◽  
Christine Cooper ◽  
Raghunandan Rao

Multiple measures of both group process and effectiveness of outcome were gathered from 100 problem-solving groups of 526 people. Generally low correlations among the measures of effectiveness of process and those of outcome effectiveness indicate that effectiveness is multidimensional as previously suggested. The relationships between measures of process and effectiveness of outcome supported previous models suggesting general linkages between these two sets of measures. The particular pattern of relationships between process and outcome measures found here was understandable, given the context in which these data were gathered. Thus, the use of multiple measures of both process and effectiveness of outcome in research on small groups is recommended.


Author(s):  
M. Kusiy

Introduction.  During the training of emergency specialists, the development of a clear, structured thinking is important.  And the mathematical disciplines themselves are aimed at activating the intellectual activity of cadets and students, the ability to think logically, consistently, and reasonably.  However, cadets and students consider mathematics to be a complex, inaccessible and not very necessary science.  Therefore, there is a need for continuous, continuous development of methods, technologies of forms of training that would increase interest, accessibility to mathematical disciplines and at the same time, were aimed at improving the quality of training of future rescuers. Purpose.  Identify the main stages of teaching higher mathematics for future civil defense specialists and substantiate their peculiarities. Methods.  The article used methods of scientific knowledge (general), methods used in the empirical and theoretical levels of research (transition from abstract to specific).  Results.  The basic stages of teaching higher mathematics for future specialists of civil defense are determined: motivation, research, assimilation, application.  The proposed stages are analyzed in detail.  The regularities that contribute to the increase of motivation (selection of educational material, system approach, creative approach, a variety of forms and methods of teaching, taking into account the specifics of the future profession, the use of innovative teaching technologies) are highlighted.  There are three phases of knowledge (curiosity, curiosity, theoretical knowledge).  It is determined that for the acquisition of knowledge it is possible to use the information - search type of classes with its microstructure.  Planning the microstructure of occupations in the first place should put the level of cognitive activity, awareness and independence in the performance of educational tasks.  It is noted that the process of assimilation is the process of internalization of knowledge, putting it into the inner plan of man, and the application is to extraorise knowledge, make it to the outline of human activity.  It was investigated that the stage of application of knowledge is divided into two parts (the first is the application of knowledge, skills in standard terms, the second - the transfer of knowledge, skills, skills in new, changed conditions).  Examples of applied tasks that can be solved in higher mathematics classes are given.  It is substantiated that only in combination of all stages is formed the need for knowledge acquisition and their application. Conclusion.  Stages of teaching higher mathematics - a cyclical process that requires constant improvement, hard work of the teacher.  Stages of motivation and application combine the same laws (selection of educational material, creative approach, taking into account the specifics of the future profession, the use of innovative teaching technologies).  And only in a logical, thought-out combination of these stages can one form the future need for civil protection specialists to expand the knowledge and apply it to practical application.


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