Does Rural Differ? Comparing Parent and Student Reasons for Choosing Cyber Schooling

Autor/inn/en	Beck, Dennis; Maranto, Roberto; Shakeel, M. Danish
Titel	Does Rural Differ? Comparing Parent and Student Reasons for Choosing Cyber Schooling
Quelle	In: Rural Educator, 37 (2016) 3, S.1-12 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0273-446X
Schlagwörter	Comparative Analysis; Parent Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Decision Making; Special Education; Distance Education; Educational Benefits; Charter Schools; Factor Analysis; Course Selection (Students); Institutional Evaluation; School Choice; Secondary School Students; Student Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elternverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Bildungsertrag; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Faktorenanalyse; Course selection; Student; Students; Kurswahl; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Sekundarschüler
Abstract	Cyber-schooling offers potentially greater benefits for rural than urban students, by providing a broader range of courses, ending long commutes, and offering more developed special education services than typically found in rural public schools. We survey students (n=269, 53.7% response rate) and parents (232, 48.7%) at a cyber-charter school dubbed SunTech, to test whether rural subjects choose cyber schooling for distinct reasons. Factor analyses and OLS regressions indicate that rural parents are more apt to choose SunTech for structural reasons such as its broader range of classes and to avoid long commutes to school. In contrast, students were more likely to rank curricular reasons as driving their decision to choose SunTech. Rural status did not affect how either students or parents graded the school (A-F). (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	National Rural Education Association. e-mail: theruraleducator@gmail.com; Web site: https://journals.library.msstate.edu/ruraled
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01