Site Administrator Knowledge of Special Education Directly Impacts School Culture

How they used Delve

A doctoral candidate at Concordia University Irvine used Delve for the qualitative strand of a convergent mixed-methods study of site administrators' special-education knowledge and school culture: open-ended survey responses from 39 administrators and interviews with seven of them.

“After reviewing different software types available for data analysis, I used StatPlus to develop histograms and pie charts to explain the quantitative data and the DELVE tool for the qualitative analysis.”

Field

special education; school leadership

Data

Survey responses from 39 site administrators with open-ended questions, and Zoom interviews with seven administrators

Approach

Convergent mixed-methods design; StatPlus for the quantitative strand, Delve for themes in the open-ended survey responses and Zoom interviews

Data types

Open-ended survey responses, Interviews