The purpose of the study was to select and field test at the Selma Middle School, Selma, Indiana, a needs assessment process which could be applicable to schools in Southern Mozambique. The study was also designed to: 1) conduct a needs assessment to determine the extent of agreement among parents, teachers and pupils on the relative importance of eighteen educational goals established by the Office of Education of the State of California, in cooperation with selected school corporations; 2) provide a rank order of priority of the five most important educational goals selected from a list of eighteen educational goals; and 3) obtain the judgment of parents, teachers and pupils to determine whether the school was meeting the five goals identified as most important.To field test a systematic approach to needs assessment and to attain community participation of parents, teachers and students, the following steps were used: 1) obtain a set of eighteen educational goals; 2) select a representative parent committee; 3) select students representing those attending Selma Middle School; 4) ask all available teachers of the Middle School; 5) provide a list of the eighteen educational goals to each member of the various groups for study.The second major task of the three groups was to judge whether or not the school was meeting the goals identified as the five most important of the eighteen educational goals. A second questionnaire was used to determine the degree to which Selma Middle School was meeting the five goals identified as most important.The three groups were composed of thirteen parents, five male and eight female; ten teachers, five male and five female; and twenty-one students, ten male and eleven female. Three student groups of seven each represented the sixth, seventh and eighth grades.The Chi-square technique, x2 = (0-E)2 , was used to test Ethe null hypotheses for significance at the .05 level.Based upon the goals selected by parents, it would seem that their selection was based on parental experience in life, which in turn influenced the decisions for selecting the goals. Many of the goals selected by parents were goals that expressed what the parents needed or hoped to achieve themselves.Teachers, because of their goal selections, did not show great interest in non-skilled subjects. Rather, the teachers were more interested in goals related to the development of pride in work and a feeling of self-worth.Based upon their selection of goals, students stressed goals related to affective domain. Students contended that most students have potentialities which, when released by teachers through satisfying and meeting the students’ needs in affective domain, the students are capable of meeting the demands of the teachers.There were more differences than similarities among parents, teachers and students, in the selection and ranking of educational goals. Students did not necessarily depend on parents to decide what was best for the students. Neither did parents rely necessarily on what the students would judge as important. Similarly, teachers were no closer to students than were parents in judging what was best for students. However, greater agreement existed between parents and students than between teachers and students on the degree to which Selma Middle School was meeting the identified goals. The greatest differences in all tasks were found to be existing between teachers and students.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/176961 |
| Date | January 1974 |
| Creators | Humbane, William James |
| Contributors | Snyder, Jack F. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | vii, 88 leaves ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
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