Candidate: Rashida Khatoon Malik

Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy

Department: Teaching, Learning and Leadership

Title: School Counselors' Perceptions about Female Participation in Non-Traditional Secondary Career and Technical Education (CTE) Programs

Committee: Dr. Carl Woloszyk, Chair
Dr. Linda Dannison
Dr. Richard Zinser
Dr. John Chapman

Date: Monday, February 28, 2005 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
3014 Kohrmann Hall

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine high school counselors' perceptions of female participation in nontraditional secondary Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. The data for this study was collected from high school counselors in Michigan by sending them a survey containing 25 items. The first section of the survey covered the demographics of the participants. The second section consisted of 8 belief statements about counseling female students into nontraditional CTE programs. The third section of the survey had 12 belief statements about female participation in CTE nontraditional programs. The survey statements were based on five Point Likert-type scales. The belief statements were used to describe the perceptions of school counselors at schools in Michigan toward female participation in nontraditional CTE programs. A 62.5% survey response rate reflected an overall positive perception toward female participation in nontraditional CTE programs. For the statement that females should be able to enter any CTE program, the positive response from the school counselors was 96.4%. The latent dimensions of school counselors' perceptions were examined to determine the relative influence of their gender, age, level of education, years of employment in education, years of employment in school counseling, and the school size. The principal components analysis (PCA) with varimax rotation was used to find their perception dimensions. Multiple analysis of variance (M ANOVA) was used and the Wilkes Lambda multivariate statistic showed that gender, level of education, and the school size had significant impact on school counselor's perceptions toward female participation in non-traditional CTE programs.

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