The purpose of this study was to examine two selected groups of Florida educators and conclude what changes, if any, Federally mandated public law 94-142 had on their perceptions of education for the handicapped. / The two groups were composed of exploratory industrial arts and vocational educators, numbering 80 in each group. One group of educators had all participated in a special summer workshop which prepared them to work with handicapped students. The second group was randomly chosen from a 1978 listing of Florida Industrial Arts Teachers. / Basic to this investigation and its findings was the identification and examination of factors and processes that influence change in attitudes. / This researcher developed a survey questionnaire consisting of 45 Likert-type items designed to investigate vocational educator's perceptions of the changes mandated by P. L. 94-142. / Data analysis procedures employed measured the central tendency of educator's perception and the relative frequencies of responses to each of the 45 items of the survey questionnaire. / A t-test was used to determine if there were significant differences in the item responses between the two groups of educators. Also, descriptive data was collected on such demographic information as: type of school; total years of teacher experience; highest degree obtained; special training to teach handicapped students; sex of respondents. / As a measure of aggregate effect, a chi square analysis was employed to determine the relationship of the obtained frequencies to expected frequencies. / Data collection sampled one hundred and sixty respondents, equally divided between two groups. According to the data, the summer workshop participants showed a more positive attitude toward the law than did those in Group II (non-workshop participants). However, there were no significant patterns formed by either group to P. L. 94-142. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-03, Section: A, page: 1115. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74440 |
| Contributors | CLARK, CLAYTON JEROME., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 108 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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