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The Effect of Persuasion on Nuclear Attitudes of Secondary School Students.

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Showers, Dennis Edward – 1987

Designed to test the effects of knowledge acquisition on attitude formation and change, this study investigated whether knowledge-oriented instruction would have a different effect on students' nuclear attitudes than attitude-oriented instruction. High school students (N=331) from six schools who had not studied nuclear energy in any class or…

Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attitude Change, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Knowledge Level