Trends in Participation Rates of Home Educating in B.C., 1993 to 2013

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dc.contributor.authorGardner, Nicole
dc.contributor.supervisorAnderson, John O.
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-21T20:26:19Z
dc.date.available2016-08-14T11:22:06Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015-08-21
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractWhen a family in British Columbia (B.C.) chooses to educate their child at home, they have two legal options: enrollment in a Distributed Learning (DL) program or registration under Section 12 (S12) of the School Act as a homeschooler. To date, there has been very little published on trends in participation rates and growth rates with regards to home educating options in B.C. The current study employs a quantitative archival design to document trends in DL and S12 across age, gender and location. Home educating is on the rise in B.C. over the past twenty years, largely due to an increase in enrollment in DL programs while registration under S12 has declined. Distinct patterns in age, gender and location between S12 and DL are apparent in the data. Growth rates among age categories in DL mirror declines in S12. While there are slightly more males than females in the total school-aged population in B.C., within DL programs there are more females than males at the secondary level. In 1993/1994 rural children were more likely to be educated at home than urban children in B.C.; today the opposite is true. Further research is needed to ascertain why these trends persist.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0525en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0529en_US
dc.description.proquestemailngardner@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6487
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjecthomeschoolingen_US
dc.subjectdistributed learningen_US
dc.subjectparticipation ratesen_US
dc.subjecthome educatingen_US
dc.subjecthome schoolingen_US
dc.subjectregistrationen_US
dc.subjectenrollmenten_US
dc.titleTrends in Participation Rates of Home Educating in B.C., 1993 to 2013en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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