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EMPIRICAL STUDY OF PARENT SATISFACTION WITH THE PERCEIVED QUALITY OF COURSES AND INSTRUCTION IN EIGHT FLORIDA COUNTIES
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AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF PARENT SATISFACTION WITH THE PERCEIVED QUALITY OF COURSES AND INSTRUCTION IN EIGHT FLORIDA COUNTIES.
Creator
FLOYD, MARILYN CHRISTIAN., Florida Atlantic University, Gatlin, Douglas S.
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this study was to establish the level of parent satisfaction with the perceived quality of courses and instruction in the public schools; to test the relationships between the level of parent satisfaction and a series of demographic characteristics of the parent and characteristics of the school and to identify those aspects of courses and instruction liked and disliked by parents. Analysis showed parents to be generally satisfied with the perceived. quality of courses and...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to establish the level of parent satisfaction with the perceived quality of courses and instruction in the public schools; to test the relationships between the level of parent satisfaction and a series of demographic characteristics of the parent and characteristics of the school and to identify those aspects of courses and instruction liked and disliked by parents. Analysis showed parents to be generally satisfied with the perceived. quality of courses and instruction. Eighty-two per cent of the parents indicated they were satisfied. Level of satisfaction was found to be related to race and sex with racial minorities and women showing higher levels of satisfaction. Education and socioeconomic status had a significant inverse relationship with level of satisfaction. Parents who grew up in the South were more satisfied than parents from other parts of the United States. Age and length of residence in Florida were not significantly related to satisfaction. The racial composition of the student body, racial status prior to integration, and grade level were tested for relationships to parent satisfaction and only grade level was found significant. Satisfaction was highest in grades 1 through 5, decreased in grades 6 through 9 and increased slightly in grades 10 through 12. Teachers were identified most often as the aspect of courses and instruction liked or disliked by parents. Members of minorities and lower socioeconomic categories were more concerned with basic skills and level of achievement, while white parents and members of higher socioeconomic categories were more interested in progressive curricula and effective teachers. It was concluded that parents were generally satisfied with the perceived quality of courses and instruction and that certain demographic characteristics of the parent are related to level of satisfaction and aspects of courses and instruction liked and disliked by parents.
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Date Issued
1974
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11635
Subject Headings
Public schools--Florida, Education--Florida
Format
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EFFECT AND IMPACT ON EXECUTIVE-LEGISLATIVE RELATIONS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET AND IMPOUNDMENT CONTROL ACT OF 1974
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THE EFFECT AND IMPACT ON EXECUTIVE-LEGISLATIVE RELATIONS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET AND IMPOUNDMENT CONTROL ACT OF 1974.
Creator
SAVIA, STEVEN ALFRED., Florida Atlantic University, Gatlin, Douglas S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description
Congress, through enactment of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, has injected management tools and techniques into it's division of the labor of the budgetary process. This has changed the relationship between the legislative and executive branches of government in regard to the budgetary process. Previous to the 1974 budget reform, Congress had altered the budgetary process significantly in 1921, giving extensive responsibility in budget preparation to the...
Show moreCongress, through enactment of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, has injected management tools and techniques into it's division of the labor of the budgetary process. This has changed the relationship between the legislative and executive branches of government in regard to the budgetary process. Previous to the 1974 budget reform, Congress had altered the budgetary process significantly in 1921, giving extensive responsibility in budget preparation to the President and his staff. While during the succeeding years the Executive branch had utilized new management tools and techniques in budget preparation, the same could not be said for t.he legislative branch in budget evaluation. Two attempts at reform, in 1946 and also in 1950, failed and criticism continued. After a confrontation with President Nixon in the early 1970's Congress moved to create the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
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Date Issued
1978
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13922
Subject Headings
Budget--United States, United States--Appropriations and expenditures
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NEW FOCUS FOR THE STUDY OF PERSONAL INFLUENCE: PUBLIC SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
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A NEW FOCUS FOR THE STUDY OF PERSONAL INFLUENCE: PUBLIC SCHOOL DESEGREGATION.
Creator
ATHOS, DEBORAH E., Florida Atlantic University, Gatlin, Douglas S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this thesis was to test hypotheses associated with the "two-step flow of communication." The uniqueness of this study rests in the new type of issue used as a data base--public school desegregation. This study relied on a larger effort by Drs. Douglas S. Gatlin, Everett F. Cataldo, and Micheal W. Giles in which over 6,000 respondents from eight Florida counties were interviewed. The extremely narrow context of personal influence and the overwhelming importance of personal...
Show moreThe purpose of this thesis was to test hypotheses associated with the "two-step flow of communication." The uniqueness of this study rests in the new type of issue used as a data base--public school desegregation. This study relied on a larger effort by Drs. Douglas S. Gatlin, Everett F. Cataldo, and Micheal W. Giles in which over 6,000 respondents from eight Florida counties were interviewed. The extremely narrow context of personal influence and the overwhelming importance of personal experiences in explaining why people change their minds suggest that successful community adjustment to integrated schooling will become a reality only through careful re-evaluation of existing desegregation policy.
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Date Issued
1974
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13657
Subject Headings
Segregation in education, Communication--Research
Format
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PERSONAL TRUST AND POLITICAL TRUST: AN EXAMINATION OF A RELATIONSHIP
Title
PERSONAL TRUST AND POLITICAL TRUST: AN EXAMINATION OF A RELATIONSHIP.
Creator
WELLINGS, CONSTANCE., Florida Atlantic University, Gatlin, Douglas S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description
This thesis examines the relationship between personal trust and cynicism and political trust and cynicism. In addition, it relates trust and cynicism to such variables as socio-economic status, issue orientation, voting behavior, partisanship, and political efficacy. The research revealed that political cynicism often exists independently of personal cynicism. Another important finding was that political cynicism is a flexible attitude that can vary over time. In addition, the data revealed...
Show moreThis thesis examines the relationship between personal trust and cynicism and political trust and cynicism. In addition, it relates trust and cynicism to such variables as socio-economic status, issue orientation, voting behavior, partisanship, and political efficacy. The research revealed that political cynicism often exists independently of personal cynicism. Another important finding was that political cynicism is a flexible attitude that can vary over time. In addition, the data revealed that political cynicism is very significantly related to political variables.
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Date Issued
1972
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13518
Subject Headings
Political psychology, Cynicism
Format
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IMPACT OF THE NEW RIGHT ON FRESHMEN REPUBLICANS IN THE 97TH SESSION OF CONGRESS: A ROLL CALL ANALYSIS
Title
THE IMPACT OF THE NEW RIGHT ON FRESHMEN REPUBLICANS IN THE 97TH SESSION OF CONGRESS: A ROLL CALL ANALYSIS.
Creator
DUERK, DAVID MARK., Florida Atlantic University, Gatlin, Douglas S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description
The relationship between New Right funding in the 1980 election and conservative congressional voting by freshmen Republicans in the 97th Congress is examined in a multi-stage process. Chapter I briefly outlines the previous studies dealing with congressional roll call voting. An examination is then made in Chapter II to determine the issue positions of the New Right and the movement's 1980 congressional election funding activities. Chapter III uses these established issue positions to...
Show moreThe relationship between New Right funding in the 1980 election and conservative congressional voting by freshmen Republicans in the 97th Congress is examined in a multi-stage process. Chapter I briefly outlines the previous studies dealing with congressional roll call voting. An examination is then made in Chapter II to determine the issue positions of the New Right and the movement's 1980 congressional election funding activities. Chapter III uses these established issue positions to determine conservative support scores within three policy dimensions. An initial analysis of the relationship is then made to determine if New Right funding is a predictive variable within the roll call analysis. With this established relationship Chapter IV uses regression analysis to determine the predictive strength of the New Right funding when it is compared with the factors most often cited as roll call determinants.
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Date Issued
1984
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14201
Subject Headings
United States--Congress--Voting, Voting research
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DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF SENATORS' ROLL-CALL VOTING POSITIONS ON FOREIGN AID LEGISLATION, 1947-1974
Title
DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF SENATORS' ROLL-CALL VOTING POSITIONS ON FOREIGN AID LEGISLATION, 1947-1974.
Creator
DEMACK, GARY CLARK., Florida Atlantic University, Gatlin, Douglas S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description
Political scientists have attempted to determine why legislators vote as they do on proposed legislation. An integral part of this research is how selected demographic characteristics influence legislators on roll-call votes. Party, region, and senators' service on the Foreign Relations Committee are found here to be related to senators' votes on foreign aid legislation, the issue perhaps most representative of voting on foreign policy in general. While these relationships are significant in...
Show morePolitical scientists have attempted to determine why legislators vote as they do on proposed legislation. An integral part of this research is how selected demographic characteristics influence legislators on roll-call votes. Party, region, and senators' service on the Foreign Relations Committee are found here to be related to senators' votes on foreign aid legislation, the issue perhaps most representative of voting on foreign policy in general. While these relationships are significant in several sessions of the Congresses studied here, none of them remain statistically significant throughout the eight sessions of the four Congresses studied. Even where significant relationships have been hypothesized here on the basis of past research findings, findings from the present study do not altogether support earlier findings. In particular, service on the Foreign Relations Committee ceases to be a significant determinant in later sessions and representing Eastern states is the strongest regional determinant.
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Date Issued
1976
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13800
Subject Headings
Legislators--United States, Economic assistance--Law and legislation, Voting
Format
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Intra-legislative Communications in a Newly Emergent Two-party System: The Case of Education and the Florida House of Representatives, 1967
Title
Intra-legislative Communications in a Newly Emergent Two-party System: The Case of Education and the Florida House of Representatives, 1967.
Creator
Callan, Dennis M., Gatlin, Douglas S., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description
This research attempts to delineate the communications patterns within the Florida House of Representatives of 1967 in its deliberations concerning the issue of education. To accomplish this goal, a questionnaire was personally administered or mailed to all 119 members of the House. A return rate of 51.3% (61) was attained. The bulk of the questionnaire items were of a sociometric nature. To map the communications of the House, ten specific hypotheses were tested. These hypotheses concerned...
Show moreThis research attempts to delineate the communications patterns within the Florida House of Representatives of 1967 in its deliberations concerning the issue of education. To accomplish this goal, a questionnaire was personally administered or mailed to all 119 members of the House. A return rate of 51.3% (61) was attained. The bulk of the questionnaire items were of a sociometric nature. To map the communications of the House, ten specific hypotheses were tested. These hypotheses concerned the relative importance of particular types of legislative actors and groups in the communications patterns of both parties. Administrative officials were also included in the analysis. The rationale for these hypotheses concerned the variables of age and/or size of the respective parties and were based upon the history of Florida politics. All ten hypotheses were based upon the contention that, as in other organizations and decision-making groups, in a legislative body there would exist a "practiced" communications pattern distinctly different from the "formal" organizational pattern. The pattern which emerged from the analysis revealed that members of both parties relied upon a small number of education experts or specialists for information, regardless of the experts' formal positions. The Democrats did not consider their party leadership to be an important information source while the Republican caucus --and through the caucus, the leadership--was a strong source of voting cues. With the exceptions of Dade and Pinellas counties, intra-delegation communications did not appear important in either party. While Democrats did not rely upon any Republicans for information, the Republicans did rely upon some Democrats (the experts}. No geographical splits were apparent in Democratic communications. The Pinellas Republicans were somewhat isolated from east coast Republicans in the information flow. The communications pattern between House members and administrative officials focused upon cabinet members. Republican Governor Kirk was most generally listed as an information source by Republicans while the Democrats relied for information upon Superintendent of Public Instruction Christian. Legislative staffs were identified as information sources by members of both parties.
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Date Issued
1969
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012584
Subject Headings
Education--Florida--Politics and government, Florida--Politics and government
Format
Document (PDF)
URBANIZATION, IN-MIGRATION AND INTER-PARTY COMPETITION: THE CASE OF FLORIDA
Title
URBANIZATION, IN-MIGRATION AND INTER-PARTY COMPETITION: THE CASE OF FLORIDA.
Creator
WHITE, DAVE ALAN., Florida Atlantic University, Gatlin, Douglas S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description
This represents a study of the relationships between county ecological characteristics and electoral competitiveness. Literature dealing with the effect of urbanization and in-migration on electoral competitiveness is reviewed. Two hypotheses on the relationship of urbanization and party competitiveness are presented. Two hypotheses on the relationship of in-migration and party competition are presented. These relationships are examined in terms of static and dynamic variables, analyzed...
Show moreThis represents a study of the relationships between county ecological characteristics and electoral competitiveness. Literature dealing with the effect of urbanization and in-migration on electoral competitiveness is reviewed. Two hypotheses on the relationship of urbanization and party competitiveness are presented. Two hypotheses on the relationship of in-migration and party competition are presented. These relationships are examined in terms of static and dynamic variables, analyzed separately and together. Cross-tabulations, correlational analysis, and multiple regression are employed to test the hypotheses, and a general knowledge of these statistical tests is advised.
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Date Issued
1978
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13928
Subject Headings
Urban renewal--Florida, Urbanization--Florida
Format
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