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[ 105] The researcher visited the principals of the selected schools with the letter of approval from the Secretary (Appendix D) and made arrangements for administering the questionnaires to parents of standard nine pupils and principals respectively. 5.3.2 Selection of Respondents In order to administer the questionnaire to parents twenty schools of the former education department responsible for Black education were randomly selected from the Port Shepstone, Durban South and Durban North regions. From each of the twenty schools ten parents of standard nine pupils were randomly selected to complete the questionnaire. This provided the researcher with 200 parents as respondents which may be considered an adequate sample for reliable data analysis. Fifty secondary school principals also from the former education department responsible for Black education were randomly selected as respondents to complete the questionnaire for principals. This provided the researcher with a reasonable sample for reliable data analysis. 5.4 THE RESEARCH INSTRUMENT 5.4. I The Questionnaire as research instrument According to Van Rensburg, Landman & Bodenstein (1994:504) a questionnaire is a set of questions dealing with some topic or related group of topics, given to a selected group of individuals for the purpose of gathering data on a problem under consideration. Van den Aardweg & Van den Aardweg (1988:190) say the questionnaire is a prepared question form submitted to certain persons (respondents) with a view to obtaining information. Churchill & Peter (SchnetIer
[106] (ed.), 1993:77) have shown that the measuring instrument has the greatest influence on the reliability of research data. The characteristics of measurement are best controlled by the careful construction of the instrument. There is, however, insufficient appreciation for the fact that a questionnaire should be constructed according to certain principles (Kidder & Judd, 1986:128-131; Behr, 1988:155-156). A well-designed questionnaire is the culmination ofa long process of planning the research objective, formulating the problem, generating the hypothesis, etc. A questionnaire is not simply thrown together. A poorly-designed questionnaire can invalidate any research results, notwithstanding the merits of the sample, the field workers and the statistical techniques (Huysamen, 1989:2). In their criticism of questionnaires Berchie & Anderson (Schnetler (ed.), (1993:61) object to poor design rather than to questionnaires as such. A well-designed questionnaire can boost the reliability and validity of the data to acceptable tolerance (Schumacher & McMiIlan, 1993:42). It therefore stands to reason that questionnaire design does not take place in a vacuum. According to Dane (1990:315-319) the length of individual questions, the number of response options, as well as the format and wording of questions are determined by the following: * * * * * Choice of the subject to be researched. Aim of the research. Size of the research sample. Method of data collection. Analysis of the data. Against this background the researcher can now look at the principles that determine whether a questionnaire is well-designed. It is thus necessary to draw
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PARENTS AND PRINCIPALS AS PARTNERS
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( III ) DEDICATION This work is ded
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CHAPTER 2 ( VII ) CAUSES FOR THE BR
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CHAPTER 4 ( IX ) AN ACCOUNTABLE PAR
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CHAPTERS PLANNING OF THE RESEARCH (
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APPENDIX A APPENDIXB APPENDIX C APP
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( xxii ) responsibility is to ensur
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(xxiv) OPSOMMING Hierdie studie was
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CHAPTER 1 ORIENTATION 1.1 INTRODUCT
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CHAPTER 2 [ 14 I CAUSES FOR THE BRE
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CHAYfER3 [ 29 1 PARENTS AND PRINCIP
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(3) Relationship of authority [ 44
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CHAPTER 7 [ 173 J SUMMARY, FINDINGS
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[195] COHEN, L. & MANION, L. 1989.
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1197] GUNTER, C.F.G. 1990. Aspects
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[ 231 I 2.18 Parents of the school
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APPENDIX D
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