A study of the impact of the Nation Builders Program on the self-perception of African American male participants in the fourth and fifth grades at Dunbar Elementary

This study was designed to determine if there was a significant difference in the self-perception of fourth and fifth grade African American male participants in the Nation Builders Leadership Program and fourth and fifth grade African American male participants in traditional extracurricular programs offered at Paul Laurence Dunbar Elementary School. The availability sample included 30 African American males. Fifteen participants were randomly assigned to the Nation Builders Leadership Program and fifteen were randomly assigned to other programs by the school’s administration. The participants selected were given the self-perception profile family of assessments (SPPC) designed by Dr. Susan Harter. The SPPC was given as a pretest and posttest to assess each participant’s self-perception in six dimensions: scholastic competence, social competence, athletic competence, physical appearance, behavioral conduct, and global self-worth. The dependent variable was the scores on the SPPC. This quantitative instrument was given before and after the students’ engagement in the programs to ascertain the programs' relationships with their self-perception. The findings of the study seem to suggest that there is a significant difference in the self-perception of Nation Builders program participants and the self-perception of traditional program participants, as measured by the Harter SPP.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• West, Mason

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rausch, David W.
• Crawford, Elizabeth K.; Bernard, Hinsdale; Rutledge, Valerie
• College of Health, Education, and Professional Studies

• African American children--Education (Elementary)--Georgia--Atlanta
• Student activities--Georgia--Atlanta

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• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English, eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/845

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-2021