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

Table 13

Causes of Challenges the Teachers Believe the Parents Faced in Supporting Their Children’s Online Learning and Their Frequency

Nearly 29% of the teachers believe that time constraints are the most frequently faced challenge by the parents in supporting their children’s online learning. As mentioned in the Barriers to Parental Involvement section, working parents and parents with more than one job have additional time constraints and often find it difficult to attend school functions or help with homework after work hours. While this researcher intuitively expected to see more of a variance, there was less than a 10% difference between the range of the four challenges listed, as indicated in Table 13 above. In this researcher’s experience, the educational background of the parents can vary widely i.e., the parents typically are not a heterogeneous group. This leads to some of the items listed not necessarily being a significant challenge for some parents, depending upon the education level, SES, and other factors. Also, when the pandemic forced the migration to online learning, the majority of Taiwanese K-12 schools utilized Google Meet, a web-based conferencing platform rather than a learning management system (P.-E. Wu, personal communication, August 2024). Students, most of whom are tech savvy, were given a link and knew that link took them to their daily assignments, so technical support by the parents in many cases was mostly not needed, thus the least challenging and with the lowest percentage as Table 13 shows. The last closed- ended question in the Survey Data Section, Question 15, asked, “Now that parents have experienced dealing with home-based learning for their children, how willing do you believe that parents today would be to become involved in their stude nt’s learning in the event of being forced into a remote learning environment again e.g., because of a predicted typhoon?”

Table 14

How Willing the Teachers Believe the Parents Would Be to Becoming Involved with Their Children’s Learning at Home in the Event of Being Forced Into Another Remote Learning Environment

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