{"id":167,"date":"2018-02-02T18:03:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sadiethompson\/?p=167"},"modified":"2018-02-02T18:03:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:03:19","slug":"learning-activity-5-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sadiethompson\/2018\/02\/02\/learning-activity-5-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Activity 5.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"URCcIzQDGS\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs591-sp18\/unit-5-learning-activities\/\">Unit 5 Learning Activities<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Unit 5 Learning Activities&#8221; &#8212; Leadership 591: Scholarly Inquiry\" src=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs591-sp18\/unit-5-learning-activities\/embed\/#?secret=uKAHpsGo1q#?secret=URCcIzQDGS\" data-secret=\"URCcIzQDGS\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What quantitative research design is used and is it justified?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The quantitative research design used in this nonexperimental research is a survey design. (Plano Clark and Creswell, 2015, P 196). The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of the servant leadership behaviour in principals of elementary schools, and determine how it impacted teacher\u2019s job satisfaction.(Cerit, Y., 2009, p. 600). \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Justifying the research problem means that you use the literature to document the importance of the issue examined in the study\u201d (Creswell, J.,2015, p.13).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The study is justified as there is a significant review of literature and current research on the subject matter, and this type of study has not ever been done in Turkey. (Cerit, Y., 2009, p. 601) The leadership scale developed by Laub (1999) was used to determine servant leadership behaviours in principals, and the job satisfaction scale developed by Mohrman et al. (1977), to determine teacher job satisfaction. (Cerit, Y., 2009, p. 600). The study method is high quality in that it provides trends to variables in a given population: in this case principals and teachers. The study was conducted by giving questionnaires out to 700 primary school teachers in 29 different primary schools in Turkey. They had an 85% response rate, as 595 teachers responded. (Cerit, Y., 2009, p. 608) The reason for the research was very clear and was justified.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are good quantitative procedures used to select and assign participants?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The procedure for obtaining participants was appropriate. \u00a0Participants were randomly selected within the population. \u00a0Researchers sent the questionnaire to 700 primary school teachers in 29 different primary schools and out of this, 595 responded. (Cerit, Y., 2009, p. 608) Of this group, 56.3% were female and 43.7% were male.(Cerit, Y., 2009, p. 608) \u201c21% of the teachers had a bachelor\u2019s degree, 67.9 a college degree and 10.9% a master\u2019s degree\u201d(Cerit, Y., 2009, p. 608) In terms of the experience that the teacher\u2019s had, the number of years teaching varied from 1 year to 21 years or more. (Cerit, Y., 2009, p. 608) The researchers identified a few variables to study based on the leadership scale developed by Laub (1999), which was used to determine servant leadership behaviours in principals, and the job satisfaction scale developed by Mohrman et al. (1977), to determine teacher job satisfaction. (Cerit, Y., 2009, p. 600). <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are good quantitative data collection procedures used?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rigorous quantitative data collection procedures were used. The instrument used for quantifying the data\u00a0was a questionnaire made up of 68 questions. Of those, 60 were related to determining the servant leadership behaviour of principals and 8 were questions to measure teacher job satisfaction (Cerit., Y., 2009, p. 608) After collecting and analyzing the data, the researchers were able to draw conclusions from the results. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Does the quantitative research design address the study\u2019s purpose?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The basic quantitative research design format was: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">introduction, review of the literature, methods, results, and discussion to address the study\u2019s purpose. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The results of the questionnaire were broken down and rigorously analyzed using statistical analyses, such as: standard deviation, mean, correlation and multi-regression analysis. The researchers found that there is a positive and significant relationship between a teacher\u2019s level of job satisfaction and the servant leadership qualities displayed by the principal. (Cerit, Y., 2009, p.613).The findings were supported by other studies that had been conducted previously, but not in Turkey. The researchers concluded the study by acknowledging that the answers to the questionnaires were based on an individual teacher\u2019s perception and biases within their school setting, and it is recommended that in order to generalize the results, more studies would have to be conducted in different places. (Cerit, Y., 2009, p. 617). I would rate this research as: 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reference:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cerit, Y. (2009). The Effects of Servant Leadership Behaviours of School Principals on Teachers&#8217; Job Satisfaction. Educational Management Administration &amp; Leadership, 37(5), 600. doi:10.1177\/1741143209339650<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creswell, J. W. (2015). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research, 5th Edition<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. [Bookshelf Online]. Retrieved from https:\/\/bookshelf.vitalsource.com\/#\/books\/9780133570847\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Plano-Clark, V., Creswell, J. (2015). Understanding research: A consumer\u2019s guide (2nd ed.).<br \/>\nBoston, MA: Pearson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unit 5 Learning Activities What quantitative research design is used and is it justified? The quantitative research design used in this nonexperimental research is a survey design. (Plano Clark and Creswell, 2015, P 196). 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