| The purpose of this study was first to determine the educational orientation of a sample of Education Services Officers (ESOs), Education Services Specialists (ESSs), and Guidance Counselors (GCs); second, to determine the relationship of the independent variables of age, sex, years in the Army Continuing Education System (ACES), and formal education to the dependent variable, educational orientation, measured by Hadley's (1979) Educational Orientation Questionnaire (EOQ), of each personnel group; and finally, to determine the collective strength of these variables in predicting educational orientation.;Descriptive statistics and data from a one-way analysis of variance were used to determine the educational orientation of ACES personnel. For ESOs, there were no significant positive correlations between the independent variables and dependent variable. The findings for ESSs suggested a positive but nonsignificant relationship between gender and subdimensions 3, 4, 5 and total EOQ score. The findings for Guidance Counselors suggested a weak positive relationship with level of education and subdimensions 1, 2, 3, 4 and total EOQ score. A relationship also emerged between subdimension 4, and gender (R;Multiple regression analysis was used to determine the strength of the independent variables in predicting EOQ scores. None of the independent variables proved to be important predictors of EOQ score for ESOs. A positive but nonsignificant relationship was suggested for the variable of sex for ESSs (females were more andragogical than males). A positive but nonsignificant relationship was suggested with both sex and education for GCs.;The strong pedagogical orientation of this sample of military educators suggests that they maintain a traditional view of both the learning process and the teacher-student relationship. The institutional climate of the military community may be a factor contributing to their orientation. Caution should be exercised concerning both the gender and education findings in this study. In both cases, the results may be masked by skewed independent variables which lessen the probability that statistically significant relationships will be found.;The final sample consisted of 298 volunteer subjects of 510 personnel surveyed (58 percent)--113 Education Services Officers, 90 Education Services Specialists, and 95 Guidance Counselors randomly selected from personnel rosters maintained by Headquarters, Department of Army, ACES Office. |
