A Comparative Study On The Effectiveness Of Two Instructional Methods

Author : Joyce M. Marshall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book A Comparative Study of Two Instructional Methods Employed in Teaching Nutrition Among Culturally Diverse Adolescents written by Joyce M. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the effectiveness of two approaches in nutrition education instruction among culturally diverse adolescents: the teacher-oriented lecture approach and the student-oriented instructional design approach. The study was designed to help culturally diverse students gain a basic understanding of practices that promote health and sound nutritional practices. The population consisted of junior and senior high-school students enrolled in a vocational technical institute in Florida. Each instructional approach consisted of two 1-1/2 hour presentations on nutritional concerns of adolescents. The teacher-oriented lecture presentation was organized around concepts taken from Ausubel (1968). It was designed to meet the academic and cultural needs of students by the lecture approach. The student-oriented instructional design workshop was organized around concepts taken from Gagne (1974). It was designed to meet the academic and cultural needs of students by an instructional design approach. The study was organized as a pretest-posttest and experimental control group design. A nutrition knowledge questionnaire served as both the pretest and posttest. The four hypotheses were stated in the null and were treated by utilizing multiple regression analysis. The .05 level of significance was selected as the acceptable level of statistical significance. The study examined possible relationships between the posttest scores and the independent variables: pretest, group, gender, race, and occupation of the head of household. The results relative to the four hypotheses revealed that there was no significant difference in the adjusted mean knowledge scores of the nutrition questionnaire according to group, gender, race, or occupation of head of household. It was concluded that when the teacher-oriented lecture approach or the student-oriented instructional design approach of instruction is designed according to teaching factors conducive to learning for culturally diverse adolescents, both methods are equally effective.