Findings Related to Research Hypotheses. The study's first hypothesis stated that: Saudi students attending college in Saudi Arabia will not score significantly differently on a test of perception regarding the field of special education when compared to Saudi students studying in the United States. Two levels of analyses were conducted to test this hypotheses. The first level consisted of a descriptive analysis in which students' mean scores, standard deviations, and score ranges were computed for the test of perception. These findings are presented in Table 1.
The second level of analysis compared group means for significant differences using the student's t test with assumption of unequal variances. The findings observed for this analysis were significant (t = 4.1205; df=105.8, p =.0001). In other words, findings did reveal a significant difference between groups. Thus, the null hypothesis of no difference is not supported by the findings of the study.
The second hypothesis tested in the study was also a null hypothesis. This hypothesis stated that: Saudi graduate students attending college in Saudi Arabia or in the United States will not score significantly different on a test of perception regarding the field of special education when compared to Saudi undergraduate students studying in Saudi Arabia and in the United States. Table 2 presents the means, standard deviations, and,
Means, Standard Deviations, and Score Ranges
Observed for Saudi Students in U.S. and S.A.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saudi Students Saudi Students
-----------------------------------------------------------------MEAN 115.53 108.78
-----------------------------------------------------------------S.D. 9.26 7.26
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