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(4) Student data
Counselling staff were asked to complete a data schedule on
each Aboriginal child in the survey, summarizing attendance
patterns, achievement in relation to the rest of the class,
employment possibilities, likelihood of ’success' in life as
defined by the counsellor, estimation of ego-identity∕ego-diffusion∕
negative identity according to the definitions and characteristics
given by Erikson and de bevitaɪ.
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(5) Student survey
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(i) Schedule 1 - Typifications
(a) Schedule 1 - construction
In order to test hypotheses 2.1 - 2.35 typifications were
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constructed from four sources:
* A review of typifications,latent or explicit in government
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policy and legislation ∙
* A review of historical accounts and contemporary research
relating to stereotyping of Aboriginal peopleɔ.
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* A review of literature with Aboriginal people as authors .
* Interviews with both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people
conducted in the process of defining the problem to be researched .
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(b) Schedule 1 - constitution
Forty-two traits were listed for scoring on a sevenpoint
scale:
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2See Appendix Vlil, pp.S35ff.
5See page 47.
4See p. 538 below.
5See p.54Q below.
6See p.542. below.
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