Sample A: Cover Page of Thesis, Project, or Dissertation Proposal

Teachers
Teacher qualifications and classroom assignment. In order to determine whether
there were statistically significant initial differences in the continuous variables age,
Pueblo Head Start experience, total Head Start experience, and total experience in the
field of early childhood education between teachers in half- and full-day classrooms, one
independent samples t-test including classroom assignment (half-day or full-day
classroom assignment) as the grouping variable and teachers‘ age as a dependent variable
and one MANOVA test including classroom assignment (two levels: half-day or full-day
classroom assignment) as the independent variable and teachers‘ Pueblo Head Start
experience, total Head Start experience, or total experience in the field of early childhood
education as dependent variables were conducted.
An independent samples t-test including classroom assignment as the grouping
variable and teachers‘ age as the dependent variable revealed no statistically significant
differences in age between teachers in half- and full-day classrooms (t = .65, ns).
A MANOVA including classroom assignment as the independent variable and
teachers‘ Pueblo Head Start experience, total Head Start experience, and total experience
in the field of early childhood education as the dependent variables revealed no
statistically significant differences in Pueblo Head Start experience (F (1, 25) = .21, ns),
total Head Start experience (F (1, 25) = .15, ns), and total experience in the field of early
childhood education (F (1, 25) = .18, ns) between teachers in half- and full-day
classrooms.
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