chievement, motivation, and self-esteem (Best Program) and a group of sixth-grade students who participated in the regular instructional program. The subjects were 104 sixth-grade students from a central Mississippi public school district with an enrollment of 33,000 students. The research design utilized was a pretest-posttest nonrandomized control group design utilizing a multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA).
The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills - Form U/V (CTBS), the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory - School Form (CSEI), and the Children's Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (CAIMI) were administered to the control and experimental groups as a pretest and as a posttest. The treatment consisted of an eight-week Best Program curriculum taught by teachers trained in the administration of the Best Program to sixth-grade students in the experimental group. The control group was taught a regular curriculum during the eight-week period.
The results of this study indicated that students in th
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