The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of small group activity intervention to promote learning in disable high school students¡¦ interpersonal relationship, personality, and self-efficacy.
Four 11th graders with minor learning disability from a vocational high school in central Taiwan participated in a 12-week intervention and formed the experimental group, which integrated and utilized role play, drawing therapy, small group game, individual presentation, cooperative learning, and self-confession. Another four 11th graders with minor LD or hearing disability was conveniently sampled to be comparison group, they were taught the usual curriculum during the intervention. All eight participants completed the ¡§Students questionnaire¡¨ at the beginning and end of this study to measure their perceptions about interpersonal relationship, personality and self-efficacy. In addition, the 4 target students were interviewed and observed within the intervention to triangulate and elucidate the quantitative findings. Descriptive data analyses assessed the similarities and differences among groups. Additionally, theme content analysis (Patton, 2002) was used to analyze the individual interview results from experimental group target students.
The initial findings revealed that the intervention group students obviously had higher scores on traits of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Openness, Interpersonal relationship and self-efficacy than the comparison group students. Limitations and implications for practice and research are provided.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0801112-151840 |
| Date | 01 August 2012 |
| Creators | Hsu, Chia-Chen |
| Contributors | Ying-Yao Cheng, Zuway-R Hong, Wen-Bin Chiou |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0801112-151840 |
| Rights | user_define, Copyright information available at source archive |
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