Group 2 Paper
Group Beech County Writing Project
Group #2
Brooke Alexander
Brandi Richardson
Alexander Shaw
Sai Sparsha Red Gangapatnam
Georgia Perimeter College
Sociology- 001
June 21, 2015
As the Board of Education of Beech County, it is understood that it is your responsibility to make sure that every child has a strong foundation in every aspect of education. It is also understood that sex education can be viewed as unnerving to some parents who oppose that kind of curriculum being taught to their children. It is our responsibility to give the Board of Education an enhanced perspective into the mind of these parents, and to have a better understanding of how the parents of this particular county feel about those kinds of teachings. We have decided that giving a survey to a large group of parents is the best way to gain a sort of consensus on the topic of sex education. This will then provide you all with sufficient evidence as to whether or not you should proceed with the adoption of sex education to your middle and high school students.
For this survey, we must use a research method to collect the results for Beech County High and Middle schools. The research method that connects with the research being done at hand is quantitative research. This form of research “collects and reports data primarily in numerical form” (Sociology in Modules, 2013, p. 39). This helps sociologists collect data in large groups, but keeps details to a minimum. The choice of choosing quantitative research was simple. The school needs a large group of parents to take a survey with a basic yes or no answer to allow or not allow this course into their curriculum. Quantitative research will help the school with accurate but simple answers. This choice seems to be the most compatible when it comes to collecting data on Beech County High and Middle schools. The most suitable form of quantitative research for this project is the survey. There are two primary forms of the survey,
Group #2
Brooke Alexander
Brandi Richardson
Alexander Shaw
Sai Sparsha Red Gangapatnam
Georgia Perimeter College
Sociology- 001
June 21, 2015
As the Board of Education of Beech County, it is understood that it is your responsibility to make sure that every child has a strong foundation in every aspect of education. It is also understood that sex education can be viewed as unnerving to some parents who oppose that kind of curriculum being taught to their children. It is our responsibility to give the Board of Education an enhanced perspective into the mind of these parents, and to have a better understanding of how the parents of this particular county feel about those kinds of teachings. We have decided that giving a survey to a large group of parents is the best way to gain a sort of consensus on the topic of sex education. This will then provide you all with sufficient evidence as to whether or not you should proceed with the adoption of sex education to your middle and high school students.
For this survey, we must use a research method to collect the results for Beech County High and Middle schools. The research method that connects with the research being done at hand is quantitative research. This form of research “collects and reports data primarily in numerical form” (Sociology in Modules, 2013, p. 39). This helps sociologists collect data in large groups, but keeps details to a minimum. The choice of choosing quantitative research was simple. The school needs a large group of parents to take a survey with a basic yes or no answer to allow or not allow this course into their curriculum. Quantitative research will help the school with accurate but simple answers. This choice seems to be the most compatible when it comes to collecting data on Beech County High and Middle schools. The most suitable form of quantitative research for this project is the survey. There are two primary forms of the survey,
References: Sociology in Modules. (2013). McGraw-Hill (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Richard T. Schaefer.