My data collection plan
I am still trying to do my teacher research paper on the coorelation between parent involvement and student achievement both academically and socially. Today I gave my class a survey that they filled out for me. I found that I recieved a lot of "yes" and "no's" as answers which doesn't really give me too much to work with, but I will try. I am also going to talk to my practicum teacher about what she thinks and the different students that we have in class. When I go home for Thanksgiving I am going to talk to my parents, and my friends' parents to see what they think. I may go to my old high school and see if I can do another survey, but we will see what time allows me to do. But I am stuck, where else should I try collecting data?? Any ideas?
posted by jules @ 8:34 PM
5 Comments:
i think that if you were to look at school policy on parent interaction within the schools as well as topics on parent teacher conferences will help you alot on your way.
You might want to try redoing your survey. Look at the kinds of questions that you asked... were they open ended or could they be interpreted as yes/no questions? Consider focusing on a smaller group of students and conducting an interview. Or talk to the teacher about parent nights, parent conferences and the amount of communication that goes on with parents weelky via email, phone, meeting with the classroom teachers.
I think your already on the right track. One thing that I might consider doing if possible, is to check past students' grades and determine if there is a correlation between those students who did well and those students who didn't do so well, in terms of parent involvement.
I think your question is a great one and very relevant to our current society. When I read your post I was thinking in the back of my mind how much divorce has altered parents' roles in students' development and possibly even hurt their education. Your research methods this far sound like a great start. If you are to continue to do surveys with students, hopefully you can add in more open-ended questions, if you have time, to get more in depth answers.
When I was in college and I had to do a paper about attitudes of sex in relation to gender, and the best advice I got came from a a lady who was into stats., and she said to do the following: use "strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, strongly agree"; and to leave a space for them to comment and explain.
If they feel their answer stands for itself, they won't comment, usually. If they are torn between something, their resposnes can be great data if they can explain it well.
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