Goals of community education as perceived among selected groups in seventy-eight Texas school districts

Vita.The research which this study describes determines the status of goals of community education in Texas. The study proceeds by analyzing the extent of disagreement of goal perception as stated in seventeen hypotheses and then analyzing the extent of agreement on goal perception. Perceived goals, disagreed and agreed upon, are then classified according to type and status. The population for the study consisted of two hundred fifty seven superintendents, school board chairmen, community school principals and community education directors in the seventy-eight school districts conducting programs of community education in Texas. Instrumentation was a revised version of the forty item questionnaire entitled National Study of the Goals of Community Education and a nine item data sheet. Research questions and hypotheses were organized according to organizational, personal, program and community variables. The most extensive disagreement by frequency and percentage according to organization variables was between community education directors and school board chairmen. Most extensive disagreement according to personal variables occurred between respondents with high school completion compared to bachelor degree (nine items). Most extensive disagreement according to program variables occurred between respondents involved in zero to two types training compared to five to six types training (six items). According to community variables, type of district, when comparing urban districts with small cities or towns less than fifty thousand population, demonstrated extensive disagreement (eight items)