The primary objectives of the study were (1) to determine the impact of the Florida Department of Education program audits on curriculum in selected secondary schools and (2) to identify ways in which the audit process can be improved. Subjects for the study were the principals of audited schools who were still in those schools at the time of the study, not less than two years after the audits. / Data were collected using a mailed questionnaire and an on-site interview. As well as requests for demographic data, the questionnaire contained 23 specific items. These 23 items were grouped into the major curriculum areas of planning, implementation, and evaluation. Using a Likert-type scale, principals were asked to rate the impact of the program audits on their schools in each of these 23 areas. / Interviews were conducted with 10 principals randomly selected from the eligible group. These principals were asked to critique the audit procedure and to report on the status of the specific recommendations that were made for their schools in the basic skills areas. / Of the 49 surveys mailed, 39 (80%) were returned. On a 1 to 7 scale, the grand mean rating for all 23 questionnaire items was 4.34. The recommendations were reported as having had greatest impact in the areas of curriculum planning and evaluation and least in the area of curriculum implementation. These are the areas that can be changed most easily and the area in which change requires major expenditues of time of fiscal resources, respectively. Eighty-two percent of the audit recommendations made in the areas of mathematics and language arts were in some stage of implementation. / In the interviews the principals reported a high degree of satisfaction with the audit procedure. However, they suggested that school personnel and auditor know more about each other prior to future audits and recommended that auditors stay with their specific audit criteria and refrain from trying to impose personal philosophy on the schools. They strongly suggested a faster return of the written audit report. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-04, Section: A, page: 0884. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75550 |
| Contributors | LUMSDEN, ROBERT SHEPHERD., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 133 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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