Review of Intentional Changes: A Fresh Approach to Helping People Change, by Allen Tough
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ABSTRACT:
I found this book, as well as his previous book (Tough, 1979), to be inspirational. His work led to an
intentional change for me. This was to try a strategy that Tough has been using in teaching his own courses. He
grades solely on the basis of the time spent in learning. This removes external evaluation and makes the student
responsible for the expenditure of the major educational resource, time. I started to do research on this and have now
used it in nine courses since 1978 (Armstrong, 1983). Compared to students in traditional courses, time contract
students reported feeling more responsibility for their learning. They also were much more likely to describe specific
changes in a critical incidents follow-up survey administered six months after the course ended. Furthermore, I have
observed a dramatic difference in the learning atmosphere, compared with that found when I used traditional
approaches. The time contract students seemed much more interested in self-change.
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