The Status of Precollege Psychology in Mississippi: The Final Report of a Survey Study in 1975-76.

Autor/in	Stahl, Robert J.
Institution	Mississippi Univ. for Women, Columbus.
Titel	The Status of Precollege Psychology in Mississippi: The Final Report of a Survey Study in 1975-76.
Quelle	(1977), (149 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Course Content; Course Descriptions; Course Evaluation; Course Objectives; Curriculum Evaluation; Educational Needs; Educational Practices; Educational Trends; Program Descriptions; Psychology; Reports; Secondary Education; Secondary School Curriculum; Social Sciences; State Surveys; Student Characteristics; Summative Evaluation; Teacher Characteristics; Teaching Methods; Mississippi + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kursprogramm; Kursstrukturplan; Curriculum; Evaluation; Curriculumevaluation; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Evaluierung; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsentwicklung; Psychologie; Abschlussbericht; Berichten; Sekundarbereich; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	The report contains the results of a survey of precollege psychology in Mississippi carried out between October 1975 and March 1976. The purpose of the survey was to obtain a profile of major psychology activities--separate psychology courses, objectives, textbooks, approaches, and teaching methods. A questionnaire was mailed to 388 Mississippi secondary school principals. The principals were requested to forward the questionnaire to the teachers who taught psychology courses in their schools. One-hundred and ninety eight principals responded. The survey revealed that psychology as a separate course of study for credit was taught in 17.7 percent of the 198 secondary schools. The report is concerned primarily with the responses of the 35 teachers who actually taught the psychology courses. The analyses include information on school, teacher, class, and student characteristics; popularity of the course; behavioristic or humanistic orientation of teachers; enrollment data; use of state-adopted textbooks; and course objectives, content, and methods. Findings indicated that most precollegiate psychology courses in Mississippi were: (1) related to personality theory, emotions, and social behavior; (2) offered as elective courses in public secondary schools for one semester to 11th and 12th grade students; (3) increasingly popular among students; (4) taught by a combined lecture/discussion method; (5) directed toward helping students better understand and accept themselves as individuals; (6) offered in white rural, urban, and suburban schools with student enrollments between 150 and 350 and between 501 and 1,000 students; and (7) taught by social studies teachers who used at least one of the state-adopted psychology textbooks. (Author/DB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC