Date of Award
Spring 1975
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Education
First Advisor
Tagatz, Glenn E.
Second Advisor
Topetzes, Nicholas
Third Advisor
Ivanoff, John
Abstract
Individually Guided Education of IGE is essentially a total system of education which takes into consideration the student's previous knowledge, as well as how he goes about learning, how rapidly he learns, and other individual characteristics. Although the current thrust of Individually Guided Education-Secondary (IGE-S) is taking a different perspective than Individually Guided Education-Elemantary (IGE-E), the importance of establishing a positive "learning climate" or facilitative environment still appears to be an underlying concern. It would seem that such an environment would have the potential for affecting student self-esteem in a positive way. Because of these considerations, the basic research question in this study was stated as: 1. Will middle school students enrolled in a multi-unit Individually Guided Education program score significantly higher on a measure of self-esteem than middle school students enrolled in a traditional school? Secondary research questions which relate to self-esteem differences by reason of sex were also included in this study. They can be stated as: 2. Will middle schools boys score significantly higher on a measure of self-esteem than middle school girls regardless of program? 3. Will middle school boys enrolled in a multi-unit IGE program score significantly higher on a measure of self-esteem than middle school girls enrolled in the same type of program? 4. Will middle school boys enrolled in a traditional program score significantly higher on a measure of self-esteem than middle school girls enrolled in the same type of program?...