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  title info:
    title: Perceptions of secondary agricultural science teachers toward proposed changes in agricultural curricula in Texas
  name:
    name part: Norris, Richard James
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Briers, Gary E.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Clark, Donald L.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Herring, Don R.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Larke, Alvin
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  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: 1988
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 151 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: This study concerned the changes in curricula taking place in agricultural science in Texas. Teachers were being directed to change from a "traditional" production agriculture based, full-year curriculum, to one more science oriented and offered on a semester basis. The purpose of this study was to determine if relationships existed between characteristics of teachers of agricultural science and their current programs, and perceptions of these teachers toward proposed changes in the agricultural science curricula in Texas. During the opening general session of the State Professional Improvement Conference for Teachers of Agricultural Science on August 12, 1987, 933 teachers were surveyed from a population of 1415. Indicating the extent to which they agreed or disagreed, teachers responded to 26 statements suggesting possible effects of curricular changes on FFA, Supervised Occupational Experience Programs (SOEP), enrollment, program administration, and teacher inservice needs and nine statements concerning the methods used to bring about the changes. Descriptive statistics were used for reporting the characteristics of teachers and their programs and teachers' perceptions. Correlational statistics were calculated to determine if relationships existed between characteristics of teachers and programs and teachers' perceptions. Discriminant analysis was used to determine the relationships among teachers' perceptions toward proposed changes, their "free choices," and their "actual choices" concerning the new curriculum. The major findings of the study were as follows: 1. The experience of the teacher had a significant inverse relationship to teacher perceptions toward effects on enrollment, SOEP, and FFA. 2. The number of schools in which the teacher had worked was inversely related to all scales. 3. Years spent as a student in vocational agriculture or as a member of the FFA were negatively related to teacher perceptions. 4. As school size, community size, and current …
  note: "Major subject: Agricultural Education."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1988
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-129).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural education
    geographic: Texas
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture teachers
    geographic: Texas
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: Curriculum change
    geographic: Texas
  subject:
    topic: Major agricultural education
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural education
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture teachers
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: Curriculum change
  subject:
    geographic: Texas
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-771521
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 890412
    record change date: 20220104090400.0
    record identifier: in00000766734
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng