Dissertation blog 5 Design

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.