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2007 Annual International CHRIE Conference & Exposition 
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degrees of freedom, and significance levels were adjusted where necessary for variables that did not meet the 
assumption of homogeneity of variance. The mean for educators was higher for eight of these characteristics, while 
the mean for industry chefs was higher for nine of these characteristics. Table 2 shows the significant results of the t-
tests, listed in descending order of the mean differences.
Table 2 
Significant Differences Regarding Importance of Program Characteristics 
Characteristic 
Edu 
Mean 
Ind 
Mean 
T Df 
Sig. (2-
tailed) 
Mean Diff 
*External advisory board 
4.33 
3.72 
7.872 
434.575 
.000 
.606 
% of grads certified 
2.87 
3.43