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The target populations for this research are instructors (teachers and aides) at the children's center, parents of children who use the center, and the children themselves. The parent and student populations are predominately Hispanic (65 percent), while Hispanics represent only 31.6 percent of the population of instructors. African-Americans and Asian-Americans are over represented among the population of instructors in relation to the proportions of these ethnic groups among parents and students. By contrast, European-Americans are under represented among the population of instructors in relation to the proportion of this ethnic group among parents and students. Establishment of perceptual differences between these populations is essential.

Parents are generally inaccessible for the conduct of research involving the children's center. Therefore, the research sample will be selected from among the populations of instructors and children. A sample of 10 instructors and 30 children will be selected. Random procedures will be applied in the selection of subjects for the two sample groups (Borg and Gall, 1989, p

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ion of either quantitative or qualitative analytical procedures (Borg and Gall, 1989, pp. 323-408). Quantitative approaches are more easily defined than are qualitative procedures, because qualitative research may refer to either the way data are measured or the way such data are evaluated (Summers, Peters, and Armstrong, 1989, p. 7). A quantitative variable is one than can be measured numerically (annual income, as an example), while a qualitative variable is non numeric, such as gender or ethnic group (Pfaffenberger and Patterson, 1991, p. 19). Quantitative data are produced by ordinal, interval, and ratio scales, while qualitative data are produced by nominal scales. Quantitative data are most often subjected to quantitative analysis, which means that such data are analyzed through the application of statistical procedures such as regression and correlation analysis (Borg and Gall, 1989, pp. 323-373). Quantitative analytical procedures provide a positivist result--a specific quantitative relationship between two or more variables is established. Qualitative evaluative criteria, however, may also be applied to quantitative data. Suppose that it was found that an increase in the burglary rate in a given community from 1,2
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