The Perceptions of Filipino Parents on the Challenge of K-12 Educational System

Baybay, Bryan Christian A.
Enerdecido, Tania Mae R.
Ronario, Ma. Francesca S.

Data Analysis
Qualitative Data Analysis
“Analysis is a breaking up, separating, or disassembling of research materials into pieces, parts, elements, or units. With facts broken down into manageable pieces, the researcher sorts and sifts them, searching for types, classes, sequences, processes, patterns or wholes. The aim of this process is to assemble or reconstruct the data in a meaningful or comprehensible fashion” (Jorgensen, 1989: 107). The researchers will analyze the data by means of using Powell and Renner’s analysis process. The analysis process is made up of getting to know the data, focusing the analysis, categorizing information, identifying patterns and connections within and between categories, and interpretation (Powell and Renner, 2003). This process will be used in analyzing all of the transcripts of parents of students from Mater Dei Academy. The identified consistencies and differences from responses of the interviewees (Powell and Renner, 2003) will be open-coded (Merriam, 2009). Identified consistencies and differences from the parents’ statements will be generalized. The researchers will then come up with patterns or themes that could be formed through the coded answers of parents (Merriam, 2009). Furthermore, these will all be interpreted.
Specifically, the researchers followed the subsequent steps in doing their qualitative data analysis of parents’ of students from Mater Dei Academy observations and statements about the K-12 Curriculum. Step-by-step Processes
a. The researchers will read the first set of the parents’ statement; it should be answered in sentence form about their understanding and perception on K-12 System.
b. The researchers will put some marks such as check, asterisk, etc. at the side of each statement. These marks enable the researchers to recognize which of the statements meant the same thing.
c. The researchers then will start encoding the marked data.
d. After encoding the marked data the researchers will now make an initial classification of the codes into themes. The process of classifying the initial codes is called Axial Coding (Corbin & Strauss, 2007 in Merriam 2009, p. 180).
e. After analyzing the first set of the parents’ statements, the researcher will now analyze and tabulate the remaining sets and will repeat all the same steps from a-e.
f. The researchers will compare the initial set of themes to the second set of themes, third themes, and so on and so forth.
g. The researchers will manually compile the entire initial list and will tabulate it on Microsoft Excel into one list of the major themes.

Statistical Treatment of Data
Weighted Mean

The weighted average was used to determine the acceptability of each of the entries of the dictionary and the dictionary as a whole. The formula is given below. Σfixi x = ------- n

where x = weighted mean fi = number of respondents whose rating is xi xi = rating of the ith respondent n = number of respondents

Frequency Distribution Frequency distribution = n / T * 100% where n = Number of respondents in an item T = Total number of respondents