Measures for the study of maternal teaching strategies
1980
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Measures for the study of maternal teaching strategies
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1980
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A technique to measure maternal teaching strategies
was developed for possible use in research
and evaluation studies. Scores derived from the
technique describe both quality and quantity of behaviors
used by mothers to teach cognitive-perceptual
tasks to their own young children. The maternal
teaching observation technique (MTOT) yields
scores on the following teaching strategy dimensions
: inquiry, directive, praise, negative verbal
feedback or disapproval, modeling, visual cue,
physical affection, positive physical control, and
negative physical control. English and Spanish versions
of the technique were developed. The technique
was administered to 83 different mother-child
dyads of two sociocultural and language groups,
Anglo-American and Chicano. The tasks and
procedures were sufficiently engaging and appealing,
in terms of difficulty level and ability to
elicit and to maintain the subjects’ attention, for
mothers and their 5-year-old children in both
groups. Interobserver reliabilities and parallel-form
consistency were adequate for both groups, indicating
that each MTOT scale measures a moderately
stable attribute of maternal behavior. Group
differences in intercorrelations suggest that construct
invariance might not exist across sociocultural
or language groups.
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Laosa, Luis M. (1980). Measures for the study of maternal teaching strategies. Applied Psychological Measurement, 4, 355-366. doi:10.1177/014662168000400307
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Laosa, Luis M.. (1980). Measures for the study of maternal teaching strategies. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/100195.
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