The UTC Graduate School is pleased to announce that Mason West III will present Doctoral research titled, A Study of the Impact of the Nation Builders Leadership Program on the Self-Perception of African American Male Participants in the Fourth and Fifth Grades at Dunbar Elementary on 10/06/2023 at 10:00 am in Zoom Meeting ID: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/81641858011. Everyone is invited to attend.
Learning and Leadership
Chair: Dr. David W. Rausch
Co-Chair:
Abstract:
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 (SPP) designed by Dr. Susan Harter. The SPP 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 SPP. 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.