title: A disability awareness unit in physical education and attitudes of elementary school students.
abstract: With informed consent 430 students in Grades 2 through 6 from two elementary schools in a large, suburban-rural school district were pretested and post-tested on the Children's Attitudes Toward Handicapped Scale. Students, by grade, rotated among four to seven different locations within the school's gymnasium, each identified by a different disability. There was no control group. Repeated-measures analysis of variance was used to assess the effect of sex on pre- and postexperimental exposures on the attitudinal scores. A 2 x 5 (school x grade) analysis of variance assessed the main effects of school and grade on attitudinal scores. Significant effects were sex but not school or grade.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Cleveland State University, OH 44115, USA.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Loovis
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Loovis
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D003479:Curriculum; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D010806:Physical Education and Training