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

experience in the field of early childhood education as dependent variables were
conducted.
An independent samples t-test including experimental group 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 = 1.02,
ns).
A MANOVA including experimental group 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)
= .02, ns), total Head Start experience (F (1, 25) = .12, ns), and total experience in the
field of early childhood education (F (1, 25) = .00, ns) between teachers in classrooms
assigned to the intervention and book reading control groups.
In order to determine whether there were statistically significant initial differences
in the categorical variables ethnicity, languages spoken, education attained, and degree
pursued between teachers in classrooms assigned to the intervention and book reading
control groups, four two-way chi square tests were conducted including experimental
group assignment (two levels: intervention group assignment or book reading control
group assignment) and either ethnicity, languages spoken, education attained, or degree
pursued.
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