Teen Parenting Case Study

Your agency is providing eight-week parenting classes for teen parents in an urban environment. Services are open to both teen mothers and teen fathers, and their children can be any age. You get referrals from local schools, hospitals, social service agencies, and the Department of Children and Family Services. The interventions of the program include a weekly parenting class, dealing with topics such as child development, effective communication with children, stress management, and compassionate behavior management strategies. The anticipated outcomes of the program include:

• Increased knowledge about child development.
• Increased sense of competence in parenting.
• Decreased reported stress levels.
• Beliefs in line with compassionate behavior management strategies rather than using corporal punishment.

Assignment Instructions

Complete the following:

1. Create your detailed analysis plan using the appropriate statistical techniques for analyzing data on descriptive measures and outcome measures based on the methodology you proposed.
2. Evaluate data analysis tests to select appropriate tests pertinent to the sampling methodology and program evaluation design. How will you answer your guiding research question (or questions)?
3. Evaluate the research assumptions that guided your selection of methodology and data analysis. For example, to conduct paired ttests, you must have a minimum of 30 participants in your sample size.
4. Describe any qualitative data you might collect and how you would analyze that data.
5. Describe the alignment of your research question and/or hypothesis and your chosen program evaluation design.