A survey study was carried out on recent graduates of the master's degree programs in adult education to identify (i) the tasks performed by these graduates in their positions of employment; (ii) the proficiencies required to fulfill these tasks; (iii) their opinions of the usefulness of these proficiencies in their positions of employment; and (iv) the extent to which the master's program of study provided them with the learning experiences necessary for the development of these proficiencies. / A questionnaire consisting of twenty knowledge and twenty skill proficiencies was the survey instrument which utilized, by cluster sampling, 267 recipients of the master's degree of adult education during the period 1972-1977. A fifty-one percent reply rate or a total number of 137 returned questionnaires supplied the data. The respondents were categorized as either teachers or administrators according to the tasks performed. Percentage distributions, median scores, rank order and upper quartile ratings were the statistical measures utilized in the analysis of the data. The Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient was also applied to measure the degree of associated between the ratings of the respondents. / Neither the teachers nor the administrators found significant relationships between the proficiencies which were most useful in their present positions of employment and those for which they were adequately prepared by the learning experiences in their master's program of studies. The teachers identified that fifty-five percent of the proficiencies were adequately provided for in graduate programs of study when compared to their usefulness after graduation, while the administrators only identified twenty-seven percent of the proficiencies similarly. / In general, both appeared to be satisfied with their master's programs of studies as most of the proficiencies were rated at the high end of the scale. The study did however reveal that although the proficiencies were useful to both groups of respondents, the needs of each group were certainly not the same in terms of skill and knowledge required. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, Section: A, page: 2379. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74499 |
| Contributors | BANATTE, HETTY DEANE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 124 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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