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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: development and standardization of three ethnic attitude scales concerning Hispanic Americans, Black Americans and Native Americans
  name:
    name part: Lawson, Ellen Blanche.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Barker, Donald G.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Christian, Chester, Jr.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Ilika, Joseph
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Norton, Donna E.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1983
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 106 leaves ; 29 cm
  abstract: This dissertation involved the development of three attitude measuring scales relating to Hispanic Americans, Black Americans and Native Americans. The tests were designed to assess the current stereotypes as identified by Anglo-Americans and individual ethnic minorities. The Literature Review which surveyed an extended definition of attitudes and stereotypes illustrated the need for the instruments. The review also surveyed the major assessment methods extant in the literature on attitude and stereotype assessment. Instruments reviewed included Bogardus' Cummulative Scale of Social Distance, Thurstone's Method of Equal-Appearing Intervals, Likert's Scale, Guttman's Scalogram Analysis and Osgood's Semantic Differential (OSD). The foregoing tests were assessed by the criteria reported in the dissertation. The only test of those reviewed that would fulfill the established criteria was Osgood's Semantic Differential (OSD). Test items were collected in an informal survey conducted at Texas A&M University. Selection of the items for the preliminary scales was made by judges who were members of the individual ethnic groups. Item selection was based on the following: (1) no more than 45 items per test and (2) a proportion of 0.30 of the judges had to select the item. Preliminary scales were constructed with using the items selected. The researcher chose contrasting bipolar adjectives for each of the items in the scale. The preliminary scales were administered in a typical classroom in the Education and Curriculum Department to 24 Anglo-American students enrolled in a children's literature class. The data were analyzed utilizing Cronbach's coefficient alpha methodology. The resulting validity coefficients of the individual items were delimited to 30 of the highest validity items. Data were then reanalyzed utilizing the same statistical procedure. The resulting alphas were high (Hispanic American--0.9713, Black American--0.9502 and Native American--0.9330). The scales were d…
  note: "Major subject: Curriculum and Instruction."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Philosophy Texas A & M University 1983
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-88).
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
  subject:
    topic: Attitude (Psychology)
    topic: Testing
  subject:
    topic: Ethnic attitudes
    topic: Testing
  subject:
    topic: Hispanic Americans
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
  subject:
    topic: Teachers
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: Curriculum and Instruction
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-541483
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 840818
    record change date: 20220103135114.0
    record identifier: in00000540175
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng