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administered as a pretest for the module and enabled the teacher to determine whether he had mastered all of the objectives of the module and may exit; had mastered some of the objectives and may complete those not mastered; or could benefit from completing all of the objectives of the module.
The Pupil Questionnaire was piloted with 144 middle school students, using three teachers and two classes of students per teacher. (see Appendix C) The pilot test provided the following information; the instrument distinguished between teachers possessing the skills taught in the module, the scale related to the conceptual understanding of middle school children, and the instrument tested for mastery of the objectives of the module. The alpha coefficient on the Pupil Questionnaire was .8044. This statistic indicated the degree of reliability among the items of the questionnaire, in terms of overlapping variance.
Collection of Data
Of the sixty teachers who were initially involved in the study, forty-nine participated to completion. They were grouped as follows:
Group A X 0 11 teachers
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Group BR 02 X 03 13 teachers
1 2 03
Group B2R X 0 13 teachers
Group C 0 X 12 teachers
Group C 0 5 X 12 teachers