A Study on the Differences of Parents'' Satisfaction on School Education according to the Communication Type between Parents and the Homeroom Teachers
Choi. Bong-Seob
Supervised by Prof. Shin. Hyun-Seok, Ph. D.
Major in Educational Administration and...
A Study on the Differences of Parents'' Satisfaction on School Education according to the Communication Type between Parents and the Homeroom Teachers
Choi. Bong-Seob
Supervised by Prof. Shin. Hyun-Seok, Ph. D.
Major in Educational Administration and Higher Education
Graduate School of Education, Korea University
This study aims at clarifying the differences how much parents are
satisfied with school education according to the communication types between parents and the teachers in charge of the classes. To accomplish this purpose, analyses were tried to find out if parents'' social backgrounds influence parents'' main communication types, if parents'' communication types bring about the differences of their satisfaction about each field of school education, if the frequency of parents'' communication with the teacher increase parents'' satisfaction degrees about school education, and how much the correlation coefficient exist between the frequency of communication and parents'' satisfaction degrees about school education.
Document researches and questionnaire method were used for this study. Parents of the 8th graders in both public and private middle schools were chosen as the respondents of the questionnaires. The collected data were processed by Descriptive Analysis, χ² Analysis, and ANOVA. After that the result was verified by Scheffe method and then the correlation of factors was analyzed using Window SPSS 14.0 K-Version Program.
Cronbach coefficient of the questions on how much parents are satisfied with school education resulted in followings: Cronbach coefficient of all of the questions resulted in .921, teaching and learning activity .715, the quality of teachers .842, school environment .737, other activities than subjects .712, and the effect of education .821. All of the fields showed high reliability.
After this study, several meaningful results were revealed. First, most of homeroom teachers and parents communicated each other by home correspondence and telephone. Generally, teachers tried to contact the parents first in a one-way communication type. Second, statistically meaningful differences were found only in the three items asking the class atmosphere, school classes, and each teacher''s desirable features according to the communication types. Third, parents were generally satisfied with overall the above five given fields of school education (67.67/100). However, the study shows that the more they communicate with the teachers, the more they got satisfied with the school. Fourth, the coefficient between overall communication frequency and parents'' satisfaction degrees about school education turned out to be .28 to .36, where some meaningful relationship turned out to exist among the detailed domains of parents'' satisfaction measurement about school education.
In conclusion, if schools want to make parents get more satisfied with the contents of school education and to get better educational effects, they should try to create various types and methods of communication and devise many efficient programs to induce parents to communicate openly with the teachers of the schools.