The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of center sponsorship, center size, director training, and director salary on the tasks performed by a day care center director. In addition, director training was examined in relation to center sponsorship and center size while director salary was investigated in relation to director training, center sponsorship and center size. Finally, the task performance of day care center directors was compared with the task performance of preschool directors. / The study consisted of 67 directors administering day care centers and preschools in Leon County, Florida. Instruments used in the study were: a questionnaire designed by the researcher and a task analysis developed in 1977 as part of a needs assessment of Texas child care administrators. / One-way analysis of variance, the Pearson product moment correlation, and the student t test were used to analyze the data at the .05 level of significance. / Ten hypotheses were tested. Hypotheses 1 through 4 examined the variable of tasks with the variables of center sponsorship and size, and director training and salary. None of the results from the analyses of variance achieved the .05 level of significance. Hypotheses 5 and 6 referred to the relationship between the variable of director training and the variables of center sponsorship and size. The relationship between director training and center size was significant. Hypotheses 7, 8, and 9 examined the relationship between the variable of director salary and the variables of director training, center sponsorship, and size. The relationship between director salary and training and between director salary and center sponsorship was significant at the .05 level using the Pearson product moment correlation. The final hypothesis, Hypothesis 10, sought to differentiate between task performance of directors of day care centers and directors of preschools. Based on director perception, which was analyzed using the student t test, there was no significant difference. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, Section: A, page: 2483. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74505 |
| Contributors | HAAS-AMEY, GWENDA JEAN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 85 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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