The Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design and Measurement of Outward-Bound-type Program Effects on Personal Development --A Case Study on Undergraduates
This research aims to test the effects of OutwardBound-type program on the personal development of college students and researches the aftermath lagged effects. This research targets on 101 undergraduates as research objects and uses the life effectiveness questionnaire (LEQ-H) as research tools, using the design of control group pretest and posttest to collect data and make statistic analysis. The research results indicate that during the 3-day session, the students in the Outward-Bound-type program have significant enhancing effects on all eight life effectiveness factors. In terms of the mid-term effects, 6 weeks after the training session, the enhancing effects on all factors of participants life effectiveness began to decrease. However, the effect of training on Time Management still have a moderate effect (ES=0.55); whereas the effect size of Task Leadership (ES=0.36) and Emotional Control (ES=0.31) are slightly altered and the enhancing effects on all other factors typically disappeared.
training effect evaluation Outward-Bound-type program life effectiveness
GONG Liang NING Bo
School of Management, China University of Mining&Technology, P.R.China, 221116
国际会议
2009 International Conference on Education Management and Engineering(2009教育管理与工程国际研讨会)
河南焦作
英文
1102-1108
2009-06-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）