Date of Award
12-1978
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Education
Department
Education
First Advisor
John S. Burd
Second Advisor
Daniel J. Roubin
Abstract
A questionnaire-type survey was constructed, field tested, and then administered to eighty selected elementary and secondary St. Charles, Missouri teachers related to their acquisition, implementation, perceptions, and attitudes regarding Building and Applying Strategies for Intellectual Competencies in Students (BASICS). It was designed to answer questions this writer and the district officials wanted answered by teachers who had taken in-service BASICS instruction. Data from the respondents indicated that all were using the learned strategies to some degree in the areas of the curriculum they teach, but not all teachers had modified their behavior to the same degree. BASICS, the product of the Institute for Curriculum and Instruction, developed to teach essential cognitive skills to students, evolved from researching classification behaviors of lower and middle-class children done by Irving Sigel at the Merrill-Palmer Institute, New York. His findings support the learning theory of Jean Piaget, in four stages, leading to the formal thinking process.
Recommended Citation
Shelburg, Jane K., "Selected Teachers' Acquisition, Implementation, Perceptions, and Attitudes of Building and Applying Strategies for Intellectual Competencies in Students (BASICS)" (1978). Theses. 1443.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/theses/1443
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