Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The effectiveness of a research methods course on the scientific thinking skills of a group of second
year psychology students was recently reported on by Kagee, Allie and Lesch (2010). As part of
this study they developed an instrument, The Scientific in Psychology Scale, comprising 11
questions each of which required (a) the endorsement of one of two binary choices and (b) a written
explanation detailing the reasons for the choice. However, their findings were based only a
statistical analysis of (a) which allowed for a comparison between a control group and an
experimental group as a whole. The present study aims to characterize the patterns of thinking at a
more detailed level, by analysing the qualitative data for one of the questions. To this end, an
alphanumeric scheme was devised to code the data for the two groups mentioned; namely, first year
psychology students who comprised the control group, and second year psychology students who
comprised the experimental group. The coding was performed at a fine-grained level from which
broader categories were constructed. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: 'n Verslag oor die effektiwiteit van ʼn navorsingsmetodiek kursus op die wetenskaplike
denkvaardighede van ʼn groep tweedejaar sielkunde studente, was onlangs waargeneem deur Kagee,
Allie en Lesch (2010). As deel van hierdie studie het hul ʼn instrument ontwikkel, Die Wetenskaplik
Denking in Sielkunde Skaal, wat bestaan uit 11 vrae wat elk ʼn (a) borg van een of twee binêre
keuses en (b) ʼn geskrewe verduideliking wat die redes vir die besluit, omskryf. Hul bevindings was
egter net gegrond op ʼn statistiese analise van (a) wat toegelaat het vir ʼn vergelyking tussen ʼn
kontrole groep en eksperimentele groep as geheel. Hierdie studie beoog om die patrone van denke
op ʼn meer gedetaileerde vlak te karakteriseer, deur analise van kwalitatiewe data van een van die
vrae. Ten einde dit te bereik, is ʼn alfanumeriese skema geskep om die data van die twee
reedsgenoemde groepe te kodeer; naamlik, eerste jaar studente wat deel gevorm het van die
kontrole groep, en tweede jaar studente wat deel gevorm het van die eksperimentele groep. Die
kodering was uitgevoer op ʼn hoogs gedetaileerde vlak waaruit wyer kategorieë gekonstrueer is.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/6718 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Bezuidenhout, Shaughn |
| Contributors | Kagee, S. A., Allie, Saalih, University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Psychology. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | Unknown |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 113 p. |
| Rights | University of Stellenbosch |
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