This quasi-experimental study was to make a comparison between the
level of self-perception prior to and following a training process.
The study attested the view that the action learning based program in
question was an effective mechanism for change in self-perception.
The population studied were officers of the Australian Public Service
and the Commonwealth Teaching Service located in the Australian Taxation Office, Austrade, ACT Schools Authority and the Department
of Community Services and Health. A pilot study conducted in the
Public Service Board in 1987 suggested that an action learning
training process may be impacting on management competencies.
Respondent's attitudes to nine personality variables were measured
using the Saville Holdsworth Occupational (OPQ) Concept 5
Questionnaire. The variables were Assertive, Gregarious, Empathy,
Field of Use, Abstract, Structure, Anxieties, Controls and Energies.
Using the Solomon's Four quasi-experimental design, containing three
experimental and two control groups, pre-test, change and post-test
scores were compared using a one-way Analysis of Variance. Where
pre-tests were statistically significantly different an Analysis of
Covariance was used,
The general conclusion from the study was that the experimental
groups showed an overall insignificant relationship with training
particularly as control groups showed similar differences over time.
Apart from few exceptions the results did not support any strong
notion of positive change in self-perception as a result of a training
intervention.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/218904 |
| Date | January 1990 |
| Creators | Dunn, Lindsay, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Lindsay Dunn |
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