Dependency responses to televised instruction

Abstract

This study compared anecdotal responses of 375 college freshmen exemplifying both effective and ineffective instruction in both televised and conventional classroom instruction. Thus, each S gave 4 anecdotes. When treated in the manner of the Flanagan critical incident technique by 4 independent judges, the anecdotes were classified into 2 broad categories: (a) those behaviors describing essentially active initiation by the learner with a focus on self were included in the self-dependent classification, (b) those critical phrases describing essentially passive participation by the learner and focused outside the self were included in the other-dependent classification. The Ss responses to effective conventional classroom instruction were significantly self-dependent. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)