This study was designed to determine whether there were differences in perception between professors of school psychology and school psychologists in Florida in regard to the importance of selected functions of school psychologists, and the adequacy of their performance by school psychologists. The study sample was 100 practicing school psychologists in Florida public school districts, and 15 professors of school psychology in the state's public universities. Study participants responded to a survey instrument containing 29 functions of school psychologists, rating these on their importance and how well they were performed by school psychologists. / Means for the responses were computed, and ranked for both respondent groups as to the importance and adequacy of performance of the functions. The Spearman Rank-Difference Correlation method was used to determine whether there was a significant correlation in these rankings. Chi-square tests were used (a) to determine the relationship between respondent groups in their ratings of the importance and the adequacy of performance for each of the 29 functions, and (b) to determine the relationship between importance and adequacy of performance for each function within respondent groups. All rankings, between and within groups were found to be significantly correlated. The chi-square tests indicated statistically significant differences on a number of items between and within respondent groups. Generally, the two groups were found to be in agreement, with both groups rating performance lower than importance of functions. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-12, Section: A, page: 3846. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75001 |
| Contributors | HALL, HORACE EDWARD, II., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 148 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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