Alzate H
Arch Sex Behav. 1982 Jun;11(3):201-14. doi: 10.1007/BF01544988.
The effect of a course in human sexuality on the sexual knowledge and attitudes of a fifth-semester class of Colombian medical students is described. The research design was a quasi-experimental one of the nonequivalent control group type, and the research instrument was Lief and Reed's SKAT. In evaluating the results, emphasis was given to the material, rather than statistical, significance of differences found. The attention of sex education researchers is called to the inconvenience of relying on statistical methods for assessing the effects of instruction in human sexuality. On the whole, the cautious conclusion can be made that the course produced a materially and statistically significant increase in the subjects' sexual knowledge, as well as a further liberalization of their sexual attitudes. Implications for evaluation of sex education programs are briefly discussed.
描述了一门人类性行为课程对哥伦比亚医学院五年级学生的性知识和性态度的影响。研究设计为准实验性的非等效对照组类型，研究工具为利夫和里德的性知识态度测试（SKAT）。在评估结果时，重点在于所发现差异的实质意义而非统计学意义。性教育研究人员应注意到依靠统计方法评估人类性行为教育效果的不便之处。总体而言，可以谨慎地得出结论，该课程使受试者的性知识在实质和统计上都有显著增加，其性态度也进一步趋于开放。文中还简要讨论了对性教育项目评估的启示。
