The Development of Democratic Values and Behavior Among Mexican-American Children

Solomon, Daniel; Ali, Faizunisa A.; Kfir, Drora; Houlihan, Kevin; Yaeger, Judy

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1972.tb01129.x

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“…These measured certain values, attitudes, and self-assessments which are included among the educational outcome indices in this research. These included democratic values (adapted from Solomon, Ali, Kfir, Houlihan, & Yaeger, 1972) -with subscores measuring equality of representation, equality of participation, willingness to compromise, and assertion responsibility, cooperation versus competition (developed for this research), value on group activities (adapted from Oberlander & Solomon, Note 8), task self-direction (developed for this research), decision-making autonomy (adapted from Oberlander & Solomon, Note 8), tolerance for differences (value on heterogeneity; adapted from Oberlander & Solomon, Note 8), concern for others (developed for this research), and self-esteem (adapted from Davidson & Greenberg, 1967).…”

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Individual characteristics and children's performance in open and traditional classroom settings.

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1976

Journal of Educational Psychology

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The performance of children (56 boys and 36 girls) with different motivational and cognitive characteristics in three "open" and three "traditional" fourthgrade classrooms was assessed. Cluster analysis of factor scores representing child orientations, motives, and prior achievement produced six "types." Three-way analyses of variance investigated the effects of child type, classroom type (open vs. traditional), and sex of child (and various interactions) on several outcome measures, including academic achievement, creativity, inquiry skill, social-educational attitudes, and teacher ratings of children's classroom behavior. Main effects appeared for each of the three independent variables, along with several Child-type x Class-type interactions. An approach using child types or clusters rather than abstracted dimensions may facilitate future Attribute x Treatment interaction research and applications. Although a great deal has been writtenabout "open education" in the past several years (e.g., Blackie, 1971;Featherstone, 1971;Kohl, 1969;Silberman, 1970), little evaluational research has been reported until quite recently. The most relevant research which has been done to date (e.g.,

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confidence: 99%