Action design
- 2. Research Problem: Does a parent’s use of Parent Connect reduce their student’s number of missing assignments from those students whose parents do not use Parent Connect? Purpose Statement: To assess if students of parents using an online system called Zangle Parent Connect have fewer number of missing assignments than those students whose parents do not use Parent Connect. Research Question: Is there a positive correlation between students whose parents use this resource and student’s submission of assignments?
- 6. Unfortunately, there was not a clear indication that parents who use Parent Connect made a significant impact on their child’s completion of work assignments. It did appear that the parents who did access Parent Connect were parents of students who had low grades in the past. Comparing students’ number of missing assignments in a short period of four weeks may not be a long enough timeframe to determine the correlation of parents using Parent Connect to the rate of students completing their work assignments
- 7. In the outcome of the survey, it appeared that most students were aware that their parents were checking their grades on a regular basis This factor may have had an impact on their work completion rate in the absence of parents actually checking their students’ grades on Parent Connect. In my opinion the parents whose child has difficulty or struggles in school are using Parent Connect to assist them in working with their child to encourage academic success. Because there is a minimal number of missing assignments it appears that students’ low grades are not due to lack of work completion.
- 8. It was difficult to determine if the use of Parent Connect had a significant impact on students’ performance and reduction of missing assignments since there were only a few missing assignments reported. I did think there was evidence in comparing transcripts with the number of views from parents that showed students with a history of low grades had the most views by their parents on Parent Connect, which leads me to infer that this reporting system has some validity in encouraging students to improve and maintain higher academic performance with encouragement from their parents.