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Additional Findings
Information that might be valuable to those studying the question of modularization was obtained in addition to what has been reported.
As discussed in the Section (Chapter I) on need for this study, an important component of the middle school curriculum is the special interest program. One of the aims of this module, as can be seen in objective four, (Appendix B, p.129), was to acquaint teachers with the special interest curriculum. After using the module, four teachers in one school designed a special interest program and implemented it on an experimental basis for six weeks.
Another means of answering the questions, whether
teachers attained skills which the material was designed to teach and whether they used them in their classrooms, was to measure how much increase resulted on each question on the student questionnaire. From the pilot test, items
2 and 4 were predicted to be the best indicators of change. Table VII shows the ten items, means and mean differences. Item 2 increased the highest amount, .50. Item 4 showed a gain of .38. These two items support the prediction and indicate a change in teacher behavior following use of the module.