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Marketable Features Of The Adapted Physical Education Career In Higher Education, Jiabei Zhang
Marketable Features Of The Adapted Physical Education Career In Higher Education, Jiabei Zhang
Human Performance and Health Education Faculty Research
The purpose was to investigate marketable features of the adapted physical education (APE) career in higher education. A total of 560 APE job openings (297 APE first priority and 263 APE second priority were identified from the Chronicle of Higher Education between 1975-1976 and 1997-1998. These data were analyzed by regression, chi-square, and descriptive statistics. The results indicate that the APE career is a growing employment market demanding candidates who specialize in APE to prepare in one or more other areas and encouraging candidates who specialize in other areas to minor in APE. The market shows that APE second priority …