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CHAPTER 3 – METHODS
This chapter will describe how the study analyzed charter school expenditures
during a time of fiscal constraint. Specifically, the methodology will be outlined and the
following will be described: how the sample and population were chosen; the
instrumentation used to collect data; procedures for data collection; and how data was
analyzed.
Charter schools have significant flexibility in how they choose to allocate their
resources. This study originally proposed to look out how successful schools and less
successful charter schools were absorbing the reduction in funding described in Chapters
1 and 2, and what decisions they are making in the usage of their fiscal resources.
Specifically, the decisions and their effect on student outcomes of these high performing
charter schools was going to be compared to less successful charter schools to see if there
was a difference in decision-making and resource allocation. However, five, mostly lower
performing schools either submitted incomplete information or did not respond to
requests to participate. Because of this, the study evolved to become an examination of
four high performing charter schools with high percentages of socioeconomically
disadvantaged students.
The Evidence-Based Model (Odden & Picus, 2008) and Ten Strategies for
Doubling Student Performance (Odden & Archibald, 2009) was used as a framework for
analyzing resource allocation and best practices implemented at these charter school sites.
Object Description
| Title | Allocation of educational resources to improve student achievement: Case studies of four California charter schools |
| Author | Patrick, Ramona Kay |
| Author email | rpatrick@usc.edu; ramonakaypatrick@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-28 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-05-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Picus, Lawrence O. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hentschke, Guilbert C. Nelson, John L. |
| Abstract | Charter schools are growing at a rapid pace have significantly more flexibility in their allocation of resources in comparison to their traditional public school counterparts in California. Because of this, it is important to study how successful charter schools, with this increased flexibility, are utilizing their resources to achieve high results with their students in a time of fiscal constraint. There is a plethora of data and research on effective school practices to improve student achievement, but a dearth of research on the effective allocation of resources at charter schools. The purpose of this study is to analyze how four high performing charter schools, with high percentages of socioeconomically disadvantaged students in Los Angeles, California, are implementing school improvement strategies and utilizing resources at their school site to impact student achievement. The Evidenced-Based Model, (Odden & Picus, 2008) along with Odden and Archibald’s (2009) Ten Strategies for Doubling Student Performance were used as a lens in this study to compare resource allocation as well as school improvement strategies to best support student achievement at the schools. This study will describe each schools’ instructional vision and improvement strategy, how resources are utilized to implement their instructional improvement plan, how the current fiscal crisis is affecting their allocation of resources, and how actual resource patterns are aligned with the Evidence Based Model (Odden & Picus, 2008). |
| Keyword | charter schools; resource allocation; evidenced-based model |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 2000/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3815 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Patrick, Ramona Kay |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Patrick-4438 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Patrick-4438.pdf |
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| Title | Page 58 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 50 CHAPTER 3 – METHODS This chapter will describe how the study analyzed charter school expenditures during a time of fiscal constraint. Specifically, the methodology will be outlined and the following will be described: how the sample and population were chosen; the instrumentation used to collect data; procedures for data collection; and how data was analyzed. Charter schools have significant flexibility in how they choose to allocate their resources. This study originally proposed to look out how successful schools and less successful charter schools were absorbing the reduction in funding described in Chapters 1 and 2, and what decisions they are making in the usage of their fiscal resources. Specifically, the decisions and their effect on student outcomes of these high performing charter schools was going to be compared to less successful charter schools to see if there was a difference in decision-making and resource allocation. However, five, mostly lower performing schools either submitted incomplete information or did not respond to requests to participate. Because of this, the study evolved to become an examination of four high performing charter schools with high percentages of socioeconomically disadvantaged students. The Evidence-Based Model (Odden & Picus, 2008) and Ten Strategies for Doubling Student Performance (Odden & Archibald, 2009) was used as a framework for analyzing resource allocation and best practices implemented at these charter school sites. |
