The focus group questions were chosen based on a specific target audience, first year to 18 year educators. A close ended survey was also conducted via surveymonkey.com focusing on parent opinions. In both research methods we decided to keep the questions simple. We will begin with the group survey results, followed by our focus group questions and interpretation.
Survey Group Questions/Responses
1. Name, what grades are your kids in?
a. The majority of the kids were in elementary grade levels except for, one in head start program, and nine who attend middle school or high school.
2. I believe in purchasing supplies required from my child’s teacher:
a. Approximately 53.6% (22) people strongly agreed, 29.27% (12) Agree, 9.76% (4) were Neutral, 4.88% (2) Disagree, and 2.44% (1) …show more content…
We can take this in consideration when aiming to alternate parent’s idea on school supply lists.
3. Teachers should purchase supplies out of their own pocket for my child’s need:
a. Surprisingly the majority of parents strongly disagreed by 51.22% (21) and 4.88% (2) strongly agreed teachers should purchase supplies out of their own pocket.
i. This indicates there is hope parents will be helpful when it comes to donating to Aid for Educators. ii. For the 4.88% of people who agreed teachers should purchase supplies out of pocket, the data gives us an insight on the small percent of parents who feel educators need to be responsible for providing supplies to their children.
4. I would consider donating supplies to classrooms:
a. On this question there was no one who disagreed, although there was a 4.88% who strongly disagreed to donating.
i. Around 12% of 41 parents felt neutral, demonstrating some parents would not be interested in donating which can be a problem when asking for small donations. ii. On the bright side there was 46.34% willing to donate to their children’s classrooms, letting us know there are parents who do care about helping