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A study of the Perceptions of Public School District Superintendents in the State of Florida Regarding Recommendations for Education Reform

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1990
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The purpose of this study was to determine through statistical analysis of a survey instrument the extent to which the 67 public school district superintendents in the state of Florida perceive the major areas of educational reform as falling into the same categories as does David T. Kearns, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Xerox Corporation, author of "An Education Recovery Plan for America" in Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive. Factor analysis was used to group the 36 specific recommendations into their "natural" groupings as perceived by the responding superintendents. This technique revealed that the natural psychological groupings in the eyes of the respondents were not the same as Kearns asserted. The study shows that the reform hierarchy, based on the perceptions of the superintendents, is actually three layers deep with Kearns' six categories being broken down into a bottom tier of 14 discrete areas.
Title: A study of the Perceptions of Public School District Superintendents in the State of Florida Regarding Recommendations for Education Reform.
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Name(s): Samuelson, Melody M.
MacKenzie, Donald G., Thesis advisor
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Created: 1990
Date Issued: 1990
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 134 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The purpose of this study was to determine through statistical analysis of a survey instrument the extent to which the 67 public school district superintendents in the state of Florida perceive the major areas of educational reform as falling into the same categories as does David T. Kearns, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Xerox Corporation, author of "An Education Recovery Plan for America" in Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive. Factor analysis was used to group the 36 specific recommendations into their "natural" groupings as perceived by the responding superintendents. This technique revealed that the natural psychological groupings in the eyes of the respondents were not the same as Kearns asserted. The study shows that the reform hierarchy, based on the perceptions of the superintendents, is actually three layers deep with Kearns' six categories being broken down into a bottom tier of 14 discrete areas.
Identifier: FA00000692 (IID)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Includes bibliography.
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1990.
College of Education
Subject(s): Public schools--Florida--Evaluation
Education--Aims and objectives--Florida
Educational change
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