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Opinions of black and white female potential educational administrators toward barriers to career advancement

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1992
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This study was designed to determine: (a) whether significant differences exist in the opinions of Black and White female potential administrators in education toward selected barriers to the career advancement of females, and (b) whether significant differences exist in the background characteristics of these females. Participants included 49 Black females and 62 White females who were enrolled in a management development program of a large urban public school district in southeast Florida during the spring of 1991. The Barriers to Female Administrative Aspirants in Education Questionnaire, partially based on a section of the questionnaire used by Edson (1981a), was developed by the researcher. It focused on five barrier-related subscales and 15 items related to background data. An analysis of variance was applied to each barrier-related subscale to determine the strength of the association between race (Black or White) and each opinion variable. A chi-square procedure was performed to determine the relationship between race (Black and White) and nominal background characteristics. In order to determine the relationship between race and non-nominal background characteristics, t-tests were performed. A.05 level of significance with a Bonferroni correction was utilized throughout the study. The findings indicated that there was no significant difference between the Black and White females in their opinions toward barriers to the career advancement of females in education. There was no significant difference between the Black and White females for 14 of the background characteristics. However, there was a significant difference between the Black and White females regarding the number of years that they had been employed in their present school district.
Title: Opinions of black and white female potential educational administrators toward barriers to career advancement.
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Name(s): Schifini, Patricia Ann.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Urich, Ted R., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Issued: 1992
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 145 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This study was designed to determine: (a) whether significant differences exist in the opinions of Black and White female potential administrators in education toward selected barriers to the career advancement of females, and (b) whether significant differences exist in the background characteristics of these females. Participants included 49 Black females and 62 White females who were enrolled in a management development program of a large urban public school district in southeast Florida during the spring of 1991. The Barriers to Female Administrative Aspirants in Education Questionnaire, partially based on a section of the questionnaire used by Edson (1981a), was developed by the researcher. It focused on five barrier-related subscales and 15 items related to background data. An analysis of variance was applied to each barrier-related subscale to determine the strength of the association between race (Black or White) and each opinion variable. A chi-square procedure was performed to determine the relationship between race (Black and White) and nominal background characteristics. In order to determine the relationship between race and non-nominal background characteristics, t-tests were performed. A.05 level of significance with a Bonferroni correction was utilized throughout the study. The findings indicated that there was no significant difference between the Black and White females in their opinions toward barriers to the career advancement of females in education. There was no significant difference between the Black and White females for 14 of the background characteristics. However, there was a significant difference between the Black and White females regarding the number of years that they had been employed in their present school district.
Identifier: 12318 (digitool), FADT12318 (IID), fau:9220 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (Ed.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1992.
College of Education
Subject(s): Women educators--Employment--Public opinion
School management and organization--Public opinion
African American women--Employment--Public opinion
Career development--Research
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