Brooklyn Preschool

Brooklyn Preschool

Parent's Survey

Survey respondents were 70% female, 30% male, 71% married, 17% divorced, 9% single (never married), 3% widowed, and 2% separated. Interviews were completed with (n=10) parents, including (n=2) parents of younger children in grades nursery, (n=6) parents of preschool students, and (n=2) parents of students in KG. The statistical margin of error is +/- 4% for the base sample of all parents. The statistical margin of sampling error is just one form of error or bias that can affect survey results. Please note that for several of the open-ended survey questions, the percentages reported add up to more than 100%. This is due to several parents offering more than one response to the open-ended questions. 

Teacher Survey

For teacher survey respondents were 17% female, 70% male, 30% married, 9% divorced, 17% single (never married), 2% widowed, and 1% separated. Interviews were completed with (n=10) teachers.

Data Collection Presentation Analysis

Statement of the purpose

The purpose of the study was to find out the relationship between the involvement of parents in school administration and the effectiveness of XYZ Preschool in Brooklyn, New York. The study investigated the extent of parents' involvement in school administration and the level of pre-school effectiveness. Based on the findings, recommendations were made on how to improve the effectiveness of the pre-schools. This project is attempt to investigate ways in which XYZ Preschool in Brooklyn, New York will improve its efficiency and effectiveness of services to her clients. This research is going to investigate ways which are available to XYZ Preschool to assist them in increasing effectiveness and efficiency as following:

Cultural background

Branding the school

Empowered

Morale

Rewards

Parental/Community involvement

Rationale for Data Collection

Collecting the data should be a planned, purposeful process. Valuable data will guide the school improvement team in developing improvement goals for the benefit of all students. The four types of data to collect and use as indicators of school or district success and progress are as follows: achievement data, demographic data, program data, and perception data. Learning Point Associates Data Retreats uses these four specific types as a framework for the school improvement team to move forward with data(Babbie 1973).  

Advanatges

The study adopted a descriptive research of the survey type. The survey is a non-experimental, descriptive research method. Surveys can be useful when a researcher wants to collect data on phenomena that cannot be directly observed (such as opinions on library services). Surveys are used extensively in library and information science to assess attitudes and characteristics of a wide range of subjects, from the quality of user-system interfaces to library user reading habits.

In a survey, researchers sample a population(Ragin 1994). Selecting the type of survey you are going to use is one of the most critical decisions in many social research contexts. For this resercah two survey are conducted. One for the parents and one targeted towards the pre-school teachers. The population of the study consisted of all the teachers, principals as well as parents of the students in XYZ Preschool in Brooklyn, New York. In the survey of parents, sample for the study was 10 respondents comprising of 2 single parents and the 8 ...