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  title info:
    title: Modifying children's attitudes and knowledge about snakes through interpretation
  name:
    name part: Morgan, John Mark.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Adams, Clark E.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Gramann, James H.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Heath, Edward H.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: McNamara, James F.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Reid, Leslie M.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1987
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 152 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: A field experiment was designed to test the effectiveness of an interpretive program on fifth through eighth-grade school camping students. The study was conducted in Fall, 1986 (September through November) at the Pocono Environmental Education Center, located at Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania. Groups of students were assigned randomly to one of eight different treatment conditions within a 2 x 4 factorial design. The purpose of the experiment was to isolate and test the relative effectiveness of the various components which comprise an interpretive program. These components were: 1. Mere exposure: students were merely exposed to live, nonpoisonous snakes. 2. Modeling: students observed an adult demonstrate snake behavior. 3. Contact opportunities: students were presented with the opportunity to touch a live, nonpoisonous snake. 4. Information: students listened to an interpretive slide/tape presentation about snakes. These components were based on traditional attitude change strategies which, in turn, were integrated into a theoretical framework called the elaboration-likelihood model. This model presents attitude change as a result of (1) central and (2) peripheral routes. Two dependent variables (attitudes and knowledge) were measured on a post-test basis after the presentation of each component(s). Both measures were pre-tested in order to gain sufficient evidence that they were valid and reliable. The attitude scale, which utilizes the semantic differential technique, yielded a reliability coefficient of .95. Knowledge about snakes was measured on a 24-item test which had a reliability coefficient of .77. Results indicated that students who received treatments containing mere exposure did not significantly improve their attitudes toward snakes as compared to the control group. However, students' attitudes significantly improved as a result of treatments containing modeling and modeling plus contact opportunities. Additionally, it was found that the attitudinal ef…
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Recreation and Resources Development Texas A & M University 1987
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-119).
  subject:
    topic: Nature study
  subject:
    topic: Outdoor education
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: Major recreation and resources development
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-30040
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 880811
    record change date: 20220104090755.0
    record identifier: in00000031968
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng