Factors Influencing Middle and High Schools’ Active Parental Consent Return Rates

The authors examined factors influencing the return rates for attempting to collect active parental consent forms from 21,123 students in the 7th through 10th grades in 41 middle and high schools. Overall return rates from middle schools were higher than from high schools. Schools that offered high...

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Published in:Evaluation review 2004-12, Vol.28 (6), p.578-591
Main Authors: Ji, Peter Y., Pokorny, Steven B., Jason, Leonard A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Age Factors
Child
Children & youth
Consent Forms
Contracts
Educational Research
Evaluation
Health technology assessment
Humans
Middle school students
Parent participation
Parental Consent
Parents
Participation
Research Methodology
Responses
School Surveys
Schools
Secondary education
Secondary School Students
Secondary schools
Social science research
Student participation
Students
United States
Youth
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Summary:The authors examined factors influencing the return rates for attempting to collect active parental consent forms from 21,123 students in the 7th through 10th grades in 41 middle and high schools. Overall return rates from middle schools were higher than from high schools. Schools that offered high levels of staff support for collecting consent forms had higher return rates. Procedures where the consent form was attached to a school form that parents had to complete and return to the school yielded the highest return rate. Implications for how researchers can obtain a high parent consent form return rate are discussed.
ISSN:0193-841X
1552-3926
DOI:10.1177/0193841X04263917