Knowledge and attitudes of child care services/teacher aide students in North Carolina's educational regions V and VII

The purposes of this study were to determine whether or not knowledge and attitudes related to child care practices differed between (a) students .who had completed Child Care Services/Teacher Aide and students who had never studied the course, and (b) students in Educational Region V and Educational Region VII in North Carolina. The sample selected for the study consisted of 200 students randomly selected from completers of two North Carolina Occupational Programs in Educational Regions V and VII in 1982. One hundred students had completed Child Care Services/Teacher Aide and 100 students had completed Directed Office Occupations. Fifty of the students representing each of the courses were from each of the educational regions. A mail questionnaire was sent to the students with a return stamped self-addressed envelope and a cover letter explaining the purpose of the research. Follow-up letters and questionnaire booklets were mailed to nonrespondents after two weeks and four weeks. Sixty-one usable questionnaires were returned by Child Care Services/Teacher Aide subjects and 74 usable questionnaires were returned by Directed Office Occupations subjects, giving a return rate of 67.5%