two issues for me here. First, if you are looking at the impact of a teaching strategy, why do you need to extend this to parents? Have they been present in your lessons? Just a note of caution because impact measurement through a third party can be difficult. Having said this, I suggest that you design your own instrument. Are you looking to do a purely quantitative study? I would have thought that you would be more aware of the variables in your setting and would, therefore, benefit more from a tailor-made instrument.

Good luck

Marie:

I looked at what is available in RG and am also providing the Social Sciences instrument measurement database from which you can choose what is suitable for you:

https://www.researchgate.net/publicliterature.PublicLiterature.search.html?type=keyword&search-keyword=teachers%27%20and%20parents%27%20perspectives%20on%20teaching%20strategies%20for%20communication%20skills%20development&page=2

http://www.midss.org/tools/search?search_api_views_fulltext=teachers+and+parents+perceptions+of+communication+skill+teaching

Hope these can be helpful.

Best regards,

Debra

Debra,

I appreciate it very much.

Thank you,

Marie

two issues for me here. First, if you are looking at the impact of a teaching strategy, why do you need to extend this to parents? Have they been present in your lessons? Just a note of caution because impact measurement through a third party can be difficult. Having said this, I suggest that you design your own instrument. Are you looking to do a purely quantitative study? I would have thought that you would be more aware of the variables in your setting and would, therefore, benefit more from a tailor-made instrument.

Good luck

Hi Gordon,

You are right because I started with a qualitative design and included  the survey. The dissertation chair in reviewing my work suggested a quasi experimental design instead. Mistakenly, I left the survey questions in a summary table. After the chair second review, he advised me to adopt a mixed-method which would strengthened the study. I tailored my survey questions. It seem as if he were not satisfied and asked for a ready-made instrument.  

I am the interventionist implementing the strategy but teachers and parents cooperated with me. I would like their feedback to verify change at home and in the classroom.

What do you think?

Regards,

Marie

There is literally no such thing as a ready-made instrument to measure the impact of an instructional process that is not standardized.  I would predict (given my experience with doctoral committees) that the chair's concern is that, if you develop your own questionnaire that measures things specific about your intervention, you do not have a strong validity and reliability base. 

  The response to that concern is in two parts. 

Part 1 - the validity of a canned survey is not relevant if the survey was not designed to measure what you need to know.  It is like using a bathroom scale (very valid to measure weight) to measure a person's height.  The reliability and validity estimates of a canned survey does not apply.

Part 2 - you can do piloting to help strengthen the validity and reliability of your own survey items.  This information would reassure your chair that you are not skewing your data with your own biases.

Rather than buy in to the change, you may need to ask more questions of your chair about what the goal here really is.  You may be able to get to a good resolution without having to twist an existing survey to your needs.

Hi Julia,

Thanks for your input. I spoke to the chair and came up with a solution. Yesterday, I sent my survey questions to 3 of my colleagues who are working in (SPE) and dealing with language development to review and validate. Now, I am waiting on them.

That is good news, Marie.  Good luck!!

Thanks Julia.

Thanks Marie Dontfraid for your question. 

Would you mind if I see your questionnaire as I am doing a research on a similar topic?

Hi, Marie.

I'm working with technological tools applied to learning. Let me suggest you the use of the distance education platform Moodle (http://moodle.org) to build your survey. It is free software that will help you to build your surveys, and also organize and analyze the answers. It can be easily used by teachers, students and parents because it looks like a common website. I think that Brooklyn College already has installed Moodle in its servers. Contact IT people in the University to better learn about it.

Cheers!