Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
The purpose of this study was to determine through
statistical analysis of a survey instrument the extent to
which the 67 public school district superintendents in the
state of Florida perceive the major areas of educational
reform as falling into the same categories as does David
T. Kearns, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Xerox
Corporation, author of "An Education Recovery Plan for
America" in Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make
Our Schools Competitive. Factor analysis was used to group the 36 specific
recommendations into their "natural" groupings as
perceived by the responding superintendents. This
technique revealed that the natural psychological
groupings in the eyes of the respondents were not the same
as Kearns asserted. The study shows that the reform
hierarchy, based on the perceptions of the
superintendents, is actually three layers deep with
Kearns' six categories being broken down into a bottom
tier of 14 discrete areas.
statistical analysis of a survey instrument the extent to
which the 67 public school district superintendents in the
state of Florida perceive the major areas of educational
reform as falling into the same categories as does David
T. Kearns, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Xerox
Corporation, author of "An Education Recovery Plan for
America" in Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make
Our Schools Competitive. Factor analysis was used to group the 36 specific
recommendations into their "natural" groupings as
perceived by the responding superintendents. This
technique revealed that the natural psychological
groupings in the eyes of the respondents were not the same
as Kearns asserted. The study shows that the reform
hierarchy, based on the perceptions of the
superintendents, is actually three layers deep with
Kearns' six categories being broken down into a bottom
tier of 14 discrete areas.
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