Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1980

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine if black and white secondary school administrative assistants perceived a difference in their job opportunities and responsibilities in the Broward County, Florida, School System, and to determine if this difference was attributable to race. The null hypothesis was that differences in questionnaire results between races were not significantly different from zero was rejected at the conventional .01 level. During the 1978-79 school year, there were 166 secondary school administrative assistants the Broward County School District. Of this number, 58 (35 percent) were black and 108 (65 percent) were white. A questionnaire was the principal means of collecting data. The random sample included 30 black and 30 white secondary school administrative assistants. Among the major findings were the following: (1) A higher percent of blacks tended to choose responses indicating discrimination than did whites. (2) The general tendency for respondents of both races was toward feeling that their race was not a limiting factor in terms of most of the areas covered by the questionnaire. (3) There was a consistent tendency for whites to feel not discriminated against to a greater relative extent than was the case for blacks on each of the 13 items. The transition from a totally segregated to a totally desegregated school system in Broward County has not been completed. Race is only one variable that has had an impact on this process. This dissertation was but one study toward an accumulation of much needed data. Suggestions were made for future research.

Extent

108 p.

Comments

Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1980.|College of Education|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1980.

Identifier

FADT11753

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