Purpose of the study
Data and recommendations from this study
will provide teachers, administrators, parents, and the school district’s
decisions makers information about parent vs. teacher’s perceptions of parental
involvement and how those perceptions may influence parental involvement at the
school under study. The researcher intends to have the information from this
study assist and overcome barriers and different perceptions that may have
limited parent involvement in the alternative schools. Thus the overarching
purposes of this study is threefold : to
(a) determine teachers’ and parents’ perceptions about parental involvement in
alternative school, (b) analyze the similarities and differences in perceptions
of parents and teachers about parent involvement, and (c) make accommodations
that will assist decision makers in enhancing the degree and effectiveness of
the present parent involvement program.
Research
Questions
The
following research questions will be used in this study:
RQ
1: What are teachers’ perceptions towards parental involvement at an
alternative school in the southeast?
RQ
2: What are parents’ perceptions towards parental involvement at an alternative
school in southeast?
RQ 3: What are the
similarities and differences of the perceptions of teachers and parents at the
alternative school.
RQ4: What recommendations do parents and
teachers have that will assist decision makers in enhancing the degree and
effectiveness of the present parent involvement program?
Research Design
I
will use the correlation research design for my study. Correlation research
designs are quantitative designs use techniques to describe and measure the degree of relationship between two or more variables
with statistical techniques ( Creswell, 2011). I chose this design because the study
will need statistical techniques that will describe relationship between the
parents’ and teachers’ perceptions and parental involvement, in alternative
school setting. The technique will then
measure the degree of association between the teachers’ and parents’
perceptions on parent involvement. The researcher will then use the study
to make recommendations that would overcome barriers and perceptions that have
limited parent involvement in this alternative school setting.
Creswell, J. W. (2012). Experimental design.
In Educational Research: Planning,
conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative
research (4th ed., pp. 354-357). PHI.
