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ERIC Number: EJ546618
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0098-6283
Counterattitudinal Advocacy as a Means of Enhancing Instructional Effectiveness: How to Teach Students What They Do Not Want to Know.
Miller, Richard L.; And Others
Teaching of Psychology, v23 n4 p215-19 Dec 1996
Describes an undergraduate psychology class that required the students to either write an essay (counterattitudinal advocacy) or read an essay supporting a scientifically acceptable position contrary to one of their beliefs. Maintains that counterattitudinal advocacy is more effective for overcoming beginning students' erroneous beliefs about psychological phenomena than are other methods. (MJP)
Descriptors: Advocacy, Change Agents, Change Strategies, College Students, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Knowledge Level, Learning Strategies, Misconceptions, Persuasive Discourse, Psychology, Reading Writing Relationship, Resistance (Psychology), Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Writing Assignments
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Researchers; Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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