Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Publication Date

7-21-2024

Abstract

The problem was to, seek the nature of differences, if any, between American Jndian and Anglo preferences for the same visual qualities by comparing children of grades 1, 3 and 6 of each gorup.

Method

Participants gave like and dislike responses to each of five particular visual qualities: linearity, angularity, curvilinearity, texture pattern and contrast. Each visual quality was arrayed as least amount, medium amount and most amount. The non-verbal survey instrument was judged to have high content validity by forty judges asked to match a primary and alternate form and to match the name to the visual quality. Coefficient of equivalence computed at .640 with d.f. 14-2 entered in table of Correlation Coefficients for Different Levels: r = .01 to .02 level of equivalence. The sample consisted of 209 American Indian students of the White Earth and Red Lake reservation schools of Minne­sota. The Anglo sample co1nsisted of 259 students from the Madison, Central and Wilson schools of St. Cloud, Minnesota, and the Gray Campus Laboratory School of St. Cloud State College.

Document Type

Dissertation

Language

English

Degree Name

Certificate in Curriculum and Instruction

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy

First Committee Member (Chair)

Alvin Wendell Howard

Second Committee Member

James Srubek

Third Committee Member

Leroy Condie

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