Compare of Effectiveness of Instructional Design Inspired from Behaviourism, Cognitive, and Constructivism Theories in Social Attitudes Change

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This research shaped in order to compare of effectiveness of three main learning theories approach on the student’s attitude change in middle school. This article reports the findings of an experimental research with pre-test and post-test. Present research is about the all of the middle schools students in Tehran. The cluster method has been used to sampling and 12 classes have been selected randomly that included 306 students.  In order to superiority of research aims, one of the social studies lesson in the text book has been selected and designed in three different format to instruction. The prepared instructional programs have been designed computer based. The data collection has been down through the attitudinal questionnaire and in order to data analysis used one-way ANOVA and LSD post-hock test. The findings show that the constructivism based model is significantly more effective than behaviourism and cognitive models. Also the behaviourism model and cognitive model have same result, in other word that’s results are not significant.

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Journal of Modern Psychological Researches
Volume 4, Issue 13 - Serial Number 13
December 2009
Pages 117-137

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  • Receive Date: 20 December 2015
  • Accept Date: 20 December 2015

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