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Attitudes of high school personnel toward NCAA academic integrity reform measures and proposals
Abstract
The purpose for conducting the study was to determine the perceptions held by high school personnel toward the National Collegiate Athletic Association's legislative efforts aimed at improving academic integrity in intercollegiate sports. A three-section, researcher-developed questionnaire was utilized to collect data during the 1992 academic year on the attitudes, ratings, and rankings held by randomly selected samples of 183 high school principals and 183 high school head football coaches toward the NCAA's four academic integrity reform measures. These measures include legislation aimed at core curriculum, the initial-eligibility index, criteria associated with satisfactory academic progress, and a disclosure of the admission/graduation rates of student-athletes in NCAA Division I and Division II athletic programs. A total of 191 (n = 191) surveys were returned, representing an overall return rate of 52%. Eighty-seven percent of the study's respondents were from public high schools. Institutions with an enrollment of 1,001 to 1,500 provided the largest number of respondents, and the majority of participating schools had produced fewer than five athletic scholarship recipients since 1986. Analysis of the data showed positive, but not overwhelming, support for the NCAA's four academic integrity reform measures. The NCAA proposal that established regulations defining satisfactory academic progress clearly generated the most support as a means to enhance academic integrity in college sports. In general, high school personnel favored academic integrity reform items directed toward satisfactory academic progress (SAP), supported maintenance of the present initial eligibility index (IEI), indicated opposition to altering the current core curriculum (CC) requirement, and displayed average support for proposal statements aimed at the disclosure of admission/graduation rates (AGR) of student-athletes. Analysis of Variance procedures yielded significant differences between the clustered, mean rating scores of high school principals and high school head football coaches on SAP and AGR reform measures. Chi-square tests of independence, however, revealed no significant differences among the ranking scores of the same two sample groups on any of the NCAA's four academic integrity reform initiatives.
Subject Area
Higher education|Secondary education
Recommended Citation
Newman, Richard Edward, "Attitudes of high school personnel toward NCAA academic integrity reform measures and proposals" (1994). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9510973.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9510973