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The Effectiveness Of Training For Empathy In Pre-Service Teacher Education, John Bruce Jessen
The Effectiveness Of Training For Empathy In Pre-Service Teacher Education, John Bruce Jessen
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The specific objective of this research was to determine the effectiveness of training on understanding empathy in the teacher training process.
Subjects were Utah State University students enrolled in Elementary Education during winter quarter 1976. The experimental group was composed of 34 subjects and the control group of 27 subjects.
Both groups were administered a pretest. The experimental group then received the treatment which consisted of a training program designed to help them to be able to (1) define, (2) recognize instances of, and (3) to emit empathic behavior. At the conclusion of the training program both the experimental and …
School Morale And Self-Esteem Involving Adolescents With Learning Disabilities, Ted E. Barrett
School Morale And Self-Esteem Involving Adolescents With Learning Disabilities, Ted E. Barrett
Master's Theses
A student's cognitive achievement may be facilitated or repressed by various elements that constitute his affective character; his feelings, attitudes, and expectations form a substantial relationship with achievement. Rather than limiting themselves to evaluating those cognitive areas that relate with various measures of achievement, the administrators and staff members at the New Community School (NCS) have specified a desire to investigate and measure both the attitudes toward school and the self held by their attending students. Within the domain of educational evaluation, greater significance is being accorded to the students' values, interests, and attitudes(Lockwood 1973). In keeping with such considerations, …