Arete Volume 3 No 2 PDF of Arete

Αρετή (Arete) Journal of Excellence in Global Leadership | Vol. 3 No. 2 | 2025

Given that this study employed convenience sampling at a single private school in Taiwan (see following section), the findings are not intended to be statistically generalizable. Rather, they offer context-specific insights that may be analytically transferable to similar educational settings in diverse international contexts, particularly those globally that share comparable structural or cultural characteristics. While this study provides meaningful insights into parental involvement during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan, the findings are drawn from a specific population and may not be generalizable to countries with different educational systems, cultural expectations, or digital learning infrastructures. Given that the current study captures a specific moment in time during an unprecedented global crisis, the extent to which the parental involvement behaviors observed during the pandemic will persist in a post-pandemic context remains uncertain. The unique educational disruptions brought about by COVID-19 may have temporarily amplified certain parental practices that are not necessarily indicative of long-term patterns which justifies further investigation through longitudinal research. Participants Convenience sampling was utilized to recruit the participants in this study. Convenience sampling is a non-probability sampling method where a researcher “selects individuals because they are available, convenient, and represent some characteristic the inv estigator seeks to study” (Creswell, 2005, p. 149). The participants in this study consisted of teachers at a private middle and high school in Taiwan. The teacher participants all have both pre- and post-pandemic teaching experience, which is necessary in order to provide valid responses to the survey questions. Setting This study took place at a private, Catholic, co-educational (formerly girls only) middle and high school in Tainan, Taiwan. The grade levels at the site are 7-9 i.e., three years middle school, and 10-12 i.e., three years high school. There were approximately 1,315 middle school students and 1,113 high school students enrolled at the time of the study. There are 108 teachers and 26 staff members on this campus. The campus consists of three buildings containing classrooms and administrative offices, and a library-auditorium complex. The school is located in central Tainan, a major metropolitan area of approximately 1.8 million people. Assessment Instrument and Data Collection Prior to the recruiting of participants, the electronic distribution and collection of the voluntary informed consent forms and the survey, and before any data was collected, Institutional Review Board approval (IRB-FY2025-56) was received. A researcher- developed survey instrument created in Qualtrics titled “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Parental Involvement of Taiwanese Middle and High School Students’ Online Learning Experience” (see Appendix A) was utilized to collect data for this study. The survey consists of seven demographic questions, followed by seven 4-point and five 5-point Likert scale questions, and two open-ended questions, which addressed the research question “What is the impact of the pandemic on

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