1) Students taught general psychology in an instructional pattern of three large lecture sessions (approximately 200 students each) and one small-group discussion (15 students) per week would perform as well on objective measures of achievement as students taught in the traditional pattern of four lecturediscussion classes (30 to 50 students) per week;(2) Students' attitudes toward the subject matter, the instructor and instruction, other students, and future work in psychology would not be negatively affected by this change in the pattern of instruction.
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