ASCHOOL COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF THE ALBIA ...

included statement number one.
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Statement of objective
Develop ability to communicate
Rating
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Results
After the sixt.y statements of objectives were placed on the chart
and the one hundrad forty-nine packets returned (each contained five
envelopes with the objectives) and tabulated,. a summary total and average
rating was computed for each objective. The average rating for each
objective was
obtained by dividing the total number of ratings for each
objective by the numbei' of times it was rated.
Table 2 illustrates the
average rating of each objective on a one-to-five scale with one representing
the lowest and five the highest i'ating.
Table 2 shows the statement
of objective and its corresponding number that was assigned for the
study.
This table does not attempt to show any order of importance of
objectives, but only the numerical order of objectives with its average
rating.
Following the summary of the objective statement and its average
r a ting, Table :3
average ratin~.
was formed which listed each objective, its number and its
Table:3 differed from the first in that the statements of
objectives were listed in oi'der of their average rating from high to low.
The ob
ives were then grouped under eighteen major objectives.
The grouping procedure followed the example used in the Phi Delta Karman
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model.