A study of the modification of teachers' attitudes toward the hearing-impaired using two different types of treatment workshops

Abstract

This ~xperimental study grew out of the ideas gleaned from a review of literature which indicated that the attitudinal role of the classroom teacher serves as a model 2 for students. A justification of the need to modify behaviors toward the hearing-impaired became apparent.The significance of effective workshop procedures could result in notable implications for school district planning and implementation of an in-service education plan.An experimental study was conducted to determine if teacher attitudes toward the hearing-impaired can be modified using two types of in-service workshops, passive versus active participation.Three groups of randomly selected regular classroom teachers at the elementary level from a West coast suburban school district were used for this investigationOne group served as a control, a second group participated in active involvement workshops regarding the hearing-impaired student, and the third group attended passive involvement workshops regarding the hearingimpaired student.Immediately following the workshops, participants were administered two scales designed to measure attitudes toward the hearing-impaired.The research hypothesis for the study was that not all subpopulation means of the scores of teachers for both scales will be equal.