Article: Factors that influence career choice of African American students to enter the adapted physical education profession.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine factors, which influence African American physical education majors, career choice to enter the adapted physical education (APE) profession. Participants were 70 (41 males, 29 females) African American undergraduate physical education teacher education (PETE) majors from 21 randomly selected historically Black colleges and universities. A mailed survey procedure was used to solicit information from participants. Data were analyzed and reported both descriptively (e.g., frequencies and percentages) and inferentially (i.e., Chi-square analysis test of association) across career choice (i.e., non-APE versus APE) ...

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