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Ethnocentrism is a cognitive bias whereby people and practices of other cultures are viewed and judged according to what is right and wrong in one's own cultural group. Social studies teachers, when teaching about peoples and cultures, implicitly, if not explicitly, try to prevent the development of an ethnocentric attitude in their students. The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable ethnocentrism scale for use by social studies teachers to gain feedback of how a particular unit of study effected their students. The scale can be used as a pre-post test measure before and after a course or unit of study. The known California E-scale, British Ethnocentrism Scale, and Australian Ethnocentrism Scale became the models for the construction of this scale. The developed ethno-centrism scale is a 30 item Likert summated rating scale using six response steps ranging from "agree very much" to "disagree very much". To insure content validity, test items were based on interviews with members of several minority groups in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia to gather information about practices and customs particular to their culture. The whole study was conducted using grade eight and nine students from four junior high schools in one Lower Mainland School District. The pool of test items were administered to approximately 550 subjects to gain data for item and factor analysis. Two ethnocentrism scales were constructed using items with high reliability rankings. The two forms were administered to groups of students to establish whether the forms were statistically parallel. The forms were not statistically parallel. One form using items with high item reliability rankings was constructed. An intervention study was conducted to check for construct validity. Eight social studies classes in one school were divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental classes were exposed to a three day lesson on ethnocentrism. The developed scale was used as a posttest measure. A significant difference between the two groups was reported. The experimental group means were significantly lower (p < .05), less ethnocentric, than control group means. Finally, the scale was administered to 215 students to gather data for test-retest reliability. At this stage the students were also administered a dogmatism scale and a self concept scale to check for concurrent and construct validity. Test-retest coefficent was high (p = .83) and the Hoyt reliability coefficent for test consistency was high for all administrations of the form ranging from .87 to .94. Recommendations for use of the developed ethnocentrism scale and areas for future research were based on the findings. / Education, Faculty of / Educational Studies (EDST), Department of / Graduate

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between career education and the career maturity of eighth-grade students as measured by the Attitude Scale and the Competence Test of the Career Maturity Inventory. A posttest only experimental design was used for the study. The subjects were selected from a population of eighth-grade students in a suburban school district in north central Texas and randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. The treatment group had a career education class for forty-five minutes each day for eighteen weeks. The control group selected an additional elective. Multiple t tests were used to test the hypotheses of the study. The hypotheses were grouped into the areas of maturity of career attitudes, maturity of career competencies, sex and career maturity, school and career maturity, and teacher and career maturity.

published_or_final_version / abstract / Linguistics / Master / Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics

鄭秀萍 = A study of the relationship between home and classroom environments and the attitude of form 3 students towards science / Cheng Sau Ping. / 據手稿本複印. / 論文(碩士)--香港中文大學硏究院敎育學部. / 參考文獻: leaves 250-267. / Ju shou gao ben fu yin. / Zheng Xiuping = A study of the relationship between home and classroom environments and the attitude of form 3 students towards science / Zheng Sau Bing. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan jiao yu xue bu. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 250-267). / 圖表目次 --- p.viii / 論文提要 --- p.xix / Chapter 第一章 --- 導言 --- p.1 / 問題背景 --- p.5 / 研究動機與目的 --- p.14 / 研究的意義 --- p.17 / Chapter 第二章 --- 文獻評述 --- p.21 / 測量態度的意義 --- p.21 / 學生所感受到的課室社會群性環境與態度 --- p.27 / 學生所感受到的家庭群性環境與科學學習 --- p.41 / 學生所感受到的家庭群性環境與態度 --- p.46 / 學生性別與其對科學所持態度的差異 --- p.58 / 初中學生升讀高中後所持科學態度的轉變 --- p.69 / 修讀「綜合科學」課程的目的 --- p.73 / Chapter 第三章 --- 研究方法 --- p.77 / 重要名詞闡釋 --- p.77 / 假設 --- p.98 / 研究工具 --- p.100 / 預試程序 --- p.112 / 研究對樣與取樣 --- p.122 / 研究程序 --- p.126 / 資料分析 --- p.127 / Chapter 第四章 --- 結果與討論 --- p.130 / 三類量表的信度 --- p.130 / 科學態度量表的因子結構 --- p.136 / 課室群性環境量表的因子結構 --- p.146 / 家庭群性環境量表的因子結構 --- p.158 / 相關矩陣 --- p.167 / 科學態度與課室群性環境的單項相關 --- p.167 / 科學態度與家庭群性環境的單項相關 --- p.173 / 男生與女生所持的科學態度比較 --- p.179 / 多項迴歸分析 --- p.188 / 課室群性環境與科學態度的關係 --- p.210 / 研究限制 --- p.230 / 建議 --- p.233 / Chapter 第五章 --- 摘要 --- p.236 / 文獻參考 --- p.250 / 附錄 / Chapter 一 --- 科學態度量表 --- p.268 / Chapter 二 --- 課室群性環境量表 --- p.272 / Chapter 三 --- 家庭群性環境量表 --- p.274 / Chapter 四 --- 教育研究問卷 --- p.278 / Chapter 五 --- 教育研究問卷答案 --- p.286

This study was to determine the extent to which the use of high-level questioning, through eliciting responses to selected poems, affects children's value claims. Twenty-seven seventh-grade boys comprised the control group, and twenty-seven eighth-grade boys comprised the experimental group. The experimental group took part in values-clarification experiences for sixteen weeks. The control group received no value instruction. The Values Inventory was administered to both groups at the beginning and at the end of the sixteen weeks. Testing of the hypotheses resulted in eight of the hypotheses being significant at the .01 level, indicating that values-clarification experiences using high-level questioning and selected poems did affect children's value claims.

丘海雄. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學, 1987. / Reprint of manuscript. / Qiu Haixiong. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 1987. / 導論 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一章 --- 研究的問題 --- p.8 / Chapter 第二章 --- 理論與假設 / Chapter 第一節 --- 理論回顧 --- p.14 / Chapter 第二節 --- 變項與假設 --- p.21 / Chapter 第三章 --- 研究的方法 / Chapter 第一節 --- 自陳法 --- p.55 / Chapter 第二節 --- 樣本與資料收集過程 --- p.59 / Chapter 第三節 --- 概念的操作化和量度 --- p.63 / Chapter 第四章 --- 研究結果與分析 / Chapter 第一節 --- 兩變項分析 --- p.75 / Chapter 第二節 --- 多變項分析 --- p.79 / Chapter 第三節 --- 男女兩個群體的比較 --- p.98 / Chapter 第五章 --- 結論 / Chapter 第一節 --- 研究結果 --- p.107 / Chapter 第二節 --- 局限性 --- p.112 / Chapter 第三節 --- 討論與建設 --- p.114 / 注釋 --- p.117 / 中文參考資料 --- p.1 / 英文參考資料 --- p.1

周玉霞. / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Zhou Yuxia.