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Administration and Training (Business School of KIIT), India
The study aims to examine the role of organisational citizenship behaviour, organisational ethos
across types of organisations (service & manufacturing), hierarchical positions (executive &
non-executive) and gender (male & female) of employees and to ascertain the importance of
organizational ethos and its dimensions on organisational citizenship behaviour. It follows 2x2x2
factorial design with 600 sample. Two standardised questionnaires have been used. There is a
significant difference among independent variables on organisational citizenship behaviour,
organisational ethos. Further, result shows that confrontation and pro-action are influencing
organisational citizenship behaviour significantly. Based on findings, OD interventions are
suggested to increase performance in organisation.
4136 ORAL
Educational psychology
Chair: Eleanor K. Brewer, USA
4136.1 Effects of online instruction vs. traditional instruction on students’ learning, Yuliang Liu,
Ellen Lavelle, Southern Illinois University, USA
This quasi-experimental study was designed to compare the effects of online vs. traditional
instruction on students’ learning in a graduate educational research course in the United States in
the summer semester of 2003. The experimental group (completely on WebCT) involved 22
Master’s students and the control group (traditional) involved 21. Participants in both groups were
K-16 school teachers. Both groups simultaneously completed the same timed chapter quizzes and
a final test during the 10-week summer semester. Results indicated the experimental group
outperformed significantly the control group in some quizzes and the final test. Implications result
from this study.
4136.2 Computer art discovery is a renaissance in education (CADRE), Eleanor K. Brewer,
South Montgomery Community Schools Corporation, USA
Students are avid learners given the opportunity to explore the newest art medium, the computer.
In my Midwestern High School the arts are perceived as necessary courses for the goal-oriented
college-bound. Computer Art creates a magnet and lifts the level of thinking in commercial design,
drawing and painting classes as well. Students rush into class, ask hundreds of knowledgeable
questions, and work feverishly to finish their technology tutorials, technique exercises, fine art
assignments (using famous artists from history as their catalyst for ideas), then explode into their
own sophisticated fine art research projects. Their creative solutions are infinite.
4136.3 Development tendency of educational psychology in Mongolia, Erdenechuluun
Dondov, State Pedagogical University of Mongolia, Mongolia
With the social, and economic changes in resent years, the learner centered training became main
development tendency of educational innovation in Mongolia. The essential requirement for
successful implementing of the learner centered training is communication between teachers and
students. The studies in this field have revealed teacher’s faults as following: The lack of the
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