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A Comparison Of Values Of Board Chairmen And Educational Administrators In Seventh-Day Adventist Residential Academies, Colleges, And Universities In The United States Of America And Canada, David Birkenstock
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Problem. An important concern of administrators is assessing the role of values in education. A high degree of values congruency between board chairmen and educational administrators seems essential for educational institutions to function effectively. The purpose of the study was to assess the degree of values congruency between Seventh- day Adventist board chairmen and educational administrators.
Method. The Allport, Vernon, and Lindzey Study of Values scale, which furnished relative scores for six value classifications— aesthetic, economic, political, religious, social, and theoretical— was selected for the study. A personal data sheet was developed for the subjects of the study.
Ten hypotheses …