This study was conducted to appraise the effect of occupational clothing programs in home economics on the development of employment skills of specific high school graduates. The investigation was directed toward determining the extent occupational graduates were prepared to be productive and reliable in the apparel industry as compared to a control group of other high school graduates who had had no prior industrial sewing training or experience. Also studied were the opinions and suggestions made by managers in the apparel industry regarding the occupational program and its graduates. / The population for the study was chosen from the northeastern portion of the state of Mississippi. It encompassed the apparel manufacturing industries which had employed May 1976 to May 1979 graduates of the State's various occupational home economics programs which offered training in industrial sewing. Participants included 12 occupational home economics teachers, management personnel in 26 apparel manufacturing firms, 70 occupational graduates, and a control group of 67 other high school graduates. / Two instruments were used to collect data for this research. The first was a questionnaire mailed to occupational teachers to secure data on graduate placement. The second instrument, developed for interviewing managers in apparel firms, was designed to provide data to test hypotheses that there would be no significant differences between occupational clothing program graduates and other high school graduates regarding: (1) length of employment, (2) tardiness and absenteeism, (3) length of on-the-job training, (4) ability to meet production schedules, (5) quality of work, and (6) reasons for leaving employment or for being terminated. / The two-sample hypothesis test on the group mean revealed that there were no significant differences between occupational clothing graduates and other high school graduates in relation to length of employment, absenteeism, length of on-the-job training, ability to meet production schedules, and quality of work. There was a significant difference, however, between the two groups regarding tardiness. The Chi Square Test had been selected to evaluate the differences between the graduates in relation to reasons for leaving employment and for being terminated, but because the data did not contain at least five responses in each cell frequency, significant differences could not be determined. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-08, Section: A, page: 3472. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74595 |
| Contributors | SANDERS, SARAH LEIGH PEARCE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 172 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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