The purpose of the study was to evaluate the level of satisfaction of parents of children enrolled in grades six, seven, or eight of the Summit Program of the Fort Wayne Community Schools. To determine the level of parental satisfaction, 354 questionnaires were forwarded to parents of children enrolled at Memorial Park Middle School for the 1981-82 2chool year. Questionnaires were returned 258, 72 percent, of the respondents. Data were tabulated for raw scores and percentages.Based upon a review of related literature, research and data, the following conclusions were developed:1. The Summit Program has a high level of parental satisfaction.2. Staff willingness and ability t& build a program around the basic skills, fine language has contributed to a high level of satisfaction among parents. 3. The race of the respondents has little on the high level of parental satisfaction with the Summit Program.4. The educational offerings of he Program are meeting the needs and interests of parents of all races.5. The length of time in the Summit Program has little impact on the high level of parental satisfaction.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether teachers' perceptions of principals' promotion and support of technology in the Fort Wayne Community Schools, Fort Wayne, Indiana, effected the successful integration of technology into the elementary school curricula. The selection of variables for this study was based on a comprehensive review of the literature and identified practitioners who had educational computing experience. These variables included teacher perceptions of principal support, teacher participation in staff development opportunities, availability of support with computer-related problems, and computer availability. These variables were correlated with teachers' use of computers, students' use of computers, and teachers' perceptions of their own improvement as measures of technology integration.A 75-item researcher-developed survey instrument, based on these variables, was presented to 558 elementary classroom teachers in the 22 participating elementary schools in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on two scannable pages. Pearson product-moment correlations were calculated for the pairs of variables.This research provided evidence of a strong correlation between the FWCS teachers' perceptions of principal leadership and support of technology integration and the teachers' evaluations of their own improvement in integrating technology into thecurricula. It also supported the premise that the level of staff development that teachers engage in directly affects their level of improvement in integrating technology into the curricula. / Department of Educational Leadership