Date of Award
4-14-2016
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Educational Leadership, Ed.D.
First Advisor
David Holman
Committee Members
Joseph Nichols; Steve Bounds
Call Number
LD 251 .A566d 2016 M33
Abstract
This study explored factors that impact parents’ decisions to homeschool their children and examined the relationship between selected demographic factors and families that homeschool using an online survey snowball sample. Past research has focused on four main constructs: religious reasons, school safety, academic instruction, and a child’s special needs. This study elaborated on these four constructs and also includes other reasons parents might homeschool such as a need for family time, family travel, distance to school, financial reasons, or wanting to take a nontraditional approach to student learning. Findings suggest that academic instruction, family time and the desire to take a nontraditional approach to education are the reasons that parents homeschool. Demographically this population has not changed since the 1999 Rudner study. However, the reasons that parents homeschool have shifted to reflect the current state of education in the United States.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
McFall, Kimberly J., "Trends In Homeschool Education: How the Face of Homeschooling Is Changing" (2016). Student Theses and Dissertations. 620.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/620
