Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Master of Educational Psychology
2 Member of the Faculty of Psychology, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
Abstract
This study was conducted to show the effect of observing active academic models on the subjects’ academic performance. The following hypotheses were tested: (1) observing active academic models enhances the subjects’ academic performance. (2) observing three active academic models enhances the academic performance to a greater extent than observing just one model. The sample consisted of 102 subjects, selected randomly and assigned randomly to three comparison groups. The first group watched a film of one same-age active model. The second group watched a film of three same-age active academic models, and the third, or the control group, was not exposed to any film. The preformance index consisted of the difference between the subjects’ pre-test and post-test scores on an exercise task of difficult words and a dictation exam. Data were also gathered concerning the subjects’ socio-economic status. Analysis of variance and multiple comparison methods were used to test the hypotheses. The results confirmed our first hypothesis, but not the second one. The socio-economic status did not show either a main effect or an interaction effect on subjects’ academic performance.
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