THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF AN INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE THE SELF PERCEPTIONS OF DEANS OF NURSING AND THEIR FACULTY IN RELATION TO THE DEANS' ROLE IN CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT.
Contributors: University of Connecticut.
Published: 1984
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: Education, Administration.
Description: In this research study, emphasis was on the development of a tool which would measure what deans of nursing perceive as their role in curriculum development. A similar tool was developed to measure the perceptions of faculty members in relation to the dean's role in curriculum development. These tools were validated on a pilot group of five deans of nursing and three faculty members per dean. Deans were chosen from each of the five major regions of the United States. Revised questionnaires were then mailed to 327 deans of nursing who hold membership, across the United States, in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing; 221 were returned representing a return rate of 67.6%. Three hundred and forty eight questionnaires were mailed to faculty members reporting to those deans who were included in the study; 286 or 82% were returned. A total of 675 questionnaires was mailed and a total of 507 was returned for an overall return rate of 75 percent. The data used to answer each of the reseach questions was computer analyzed using the Chi Square statistic at the .05 level of significance. A total of 21 questions was asked of both populations; only three were not statistically significant. Differences in the responses pointed to a need for Deans to clarify their role with faculty. This tool may now serve as a model for the improvement of the decanal role in one area, curriculum development.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-04, Section: A, page: 1006.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, 1984.

School code: 0056.