Socijalni i afektivni efekti primene programa „Korak po korak”
Social and Affective Effects of the ‘Step-by-Step’ Program Application

Summary/Abstract: Key ideas and commitment to the research emerge from the topicality of a need to examine the effects of methodologies aimed at pupils. The aim of the research is to determine the attitudes and opinions of teachers, parents, and pupils about the social and affective effects of the application of the “Step by Step” program elements in the Republic of Serbia, as well as to examine interpersonal relationships among the pupils, which are indicators of social and affective effects of teaching. Given the complexity of the set research objective, results and discussion are presented in two studies: the first study relates to the assessment of teachers, parents, and elementary school pupils on social and affective effects of teaching. The sample includes 1,617 respondents. Another study has been conducted to determine the interpersonal relationships among pupils, and the sample includes 788 elementary school pupils. Applied instruments are a questionnaire in the Likert-scale form of social and affective effects of teaching, and sociometric questionnaire. The obtained results show that teachers who apply the elements of the “Step by Step” program have more statistically significant arithmetic mean for the claims relating to the social effects in comparison to the teachers who do not apply this program. Sociometric examination confirms that positive choices of pupils are more frequent, and negative choices are less frequent in classes where applicable elements of the program “Step by Step” in relation to the classes which do not apply the elements of this program. The conclusion is that the obtained results confirm the validity of applying scientific methodology aimed at children, such as the “Step by Step” program. The implications of this research could be viewed both at the macro level (the Republic, Province, local community) and the micro level (schools, departments) of education in Serbia.

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