Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1979

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

The research study was designed to determine if there was a significant difference in the organizational climate between Individually Guided Education (IGE) and Open-Space schools. The instrument used was the Halpin and Croft Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (OCDQ). The OCDQ was a sixty-four item Likert-type questionnaire which was developed to measure the organizational climates of elementary schools. The questionnaire was administered to teachers in fourteen schools located in the counties of Orange, Lake, Seminole, and Volusia in Central Florida. Seven of the schools were designated as IGE schools and seven were identified as Open-Space because of their architectural design. The OCDQ was administered in the fourteen schools during the month of November, 1978 . The 314 teachers that participated represented 92.08 percent of the possible responses. The questionnaires were administered with the assistance of the principals, unit leaders, and team leaders in the schools involved. It was concluded that the IGE schools scored higher on the three subtests because of the close working relationships that are part of the IGE concept. The differences in the total organizational climates of the IGE and Open-Space schools were based on the inherent differences of the two types of schools examined.

Extent

133 p.

Comments

Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.|College of Education|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.

Identifier

FADT11725

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