Causes for Loss of Interest in High-School Subjects as Reported by 651 College Students
| Autor: | Florene M. Young |
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| Rok vydání: | 1932 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Educational Research. 25:110-115 |
| ISSN: | 1940-0675 0022-0671 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00220671.1932.10880244 |
| Popis: | The present study of reasons for loss of interest in high school sub jects is based upon written reports from 651 college women attending the State Teachers College, Athens, Georgia. With 19 exceptions they represent 230, 183 and 219 second year students of 1926-27, 1927-28, 1928-29, respectively. No blanks were accepted from individuals who had been out of high school for more than three years. The inquiries were answered carefully and conscientiously, it appeared, as part of a class exercise. Many ambiguous blanks were clarified by means of pri vate conferences. Without explanatory discussions or illustrations the subjects were requested to supply the information, with name, date of graduation, etc., requested in the following questionnaire : (1) Give the name of a high-school course in which you lost interest, either temporarily or permanently. (2) List the main reasons for loss of interest in the subject. (3) Did you ever regain interest in the subject? (4) If you did regain interest, approximately how many weeks, months or years elapsed before you again liked the subject? (5) Did you ever take another course in the subject after you lost interest in it? (Note: You may name as many subjects and as many reasons as you wish.) The number naming each subject and the time for regaining interest may be found in Table I which should be read as follows: 234, or 36 percent, of the 651 students specified loss of interest in Latin; of this number, 25.64 percent stated time for regaining interest in terms of years, the average number of years being 1.4. Of the 234 students, 30.77 percent gave time for regaining interest in terms of months, the average number of months being 1.4. Column VII shows that 43.59 percent of the students naming Latin never regained interest in it. However, 40 percent of the group which never revived a liking for the subject had had no further courses in it and so had had no opportunity to renew their interest. An average of 79.8 students named each of the 12 groups of subjects, the mean variation being 53.8. An average of 31 percent of those naming the various courses stated the time for regaining interest in terms of years, the range being from 17 percent to 64 percent and the average deviation 11.2. The range in time is 1.1 to 3.4 years, the mean being 1.8 years and the average deviation 0.4. An average of 38 percent gave the time for regaining interest in terms of months, the range 110 |
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