| he purposes of this study were to develop a global perspectives module to be incorporated into an existing course and to test the effectiveness of the unit in terms of changes in knowledge and attitudes of home economics university students. Knowledge and attitude scores of two groups of students, one of which had been exposed to the module and another which had not, were compared. Relationships among posttest knowledge scores of students and G.P.A., extent of foreign travel, discussion of world issues in other college classes, and number of classes attended during the experimental unit were examined. Other relationships examined were among posttest attitude scores of students and extent of foreign travel; discussion of world problems in other college classrooms; frequency of reading magazines and newspapers and of viewing T.V. news and documentaries; reading the international section of the newspaper; and number of classes attended.;Subjects were students enrolled in HEB 210, Aspects of the Personal Environment, in the fall and spring semesters of 1986 and 1987. The fall class served as the experimental group and the spring class served as the control group. The instrument developed for the study had an attitude, a knowledge, and a general background section. The split-half reliability of the knowledge section was.91, and Cronbach's Alpha was.75 for the attitude section.;An analysis of covariance was used to test for significant differences in the mean cognitive and attitudinal scores between the experimental and control groups with pretest as covariate. The gains of the experimental group were statistically significant (p ;A stepwise multiple regression analysis determined the independent variables accounting for the most variance in the dependent variables, knowledge and attitude scores. The results showed that there was a significant regression equation for both dependent variables (p... |
