Gomez, Frank C. Jr
Trespalacios, Jesús
Hsu, Yu-Chang
Yang, Dazhi
Article History
Accepted: 8 July 2021
First Online: 5 August 2021
Declarations
:
: Participation in the study by teachers was entirely voluntary and did not entail any foreseeable risks. Consent for the study was obtained through a letter addressed to teacher participants. Teachers who participated in this study via an online survey gave their informed consent before commencing the survey. They had the option to proceed with completing or declining the invitation to participate and thereby terminate the survey as well as the choice to end the process at any point in completing the survey. Participants were reminded that choosing not to participate, complete, or submit the online survey would not adversely affect their relationship with anyone associated with this study including the primary investigator, the school district, place of employment, and the university approving this study.
: There is no potential conflict of interest to be declared by the authors. No funding was received by any of the authors to support this research project or in the execution of this research study. Also, there was no compensation given for participating in this study.
: This research study involved human participants. The study, which was opened only to K-12 teachers in Catholic schools in Southern California, commenced after procuring approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Boise State University and the approval of the assistant superintendent for Catholic elementary and high schools for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. A letter of invitation and participant consent was sent via email to teachers along with the link to the online survey. Teacher-participants had the option, before commencing the survey, to proceed with completing or declining the invitation to participate and terminate the survey. Participants who consented but did not complete the entire online survey were not included in the sample size for this study. A total of 327 teachers who consented and completed the survey was utilized for this study. The data collected from the online survey was analyzed in a non-identifiable way assuring that the responses remained confidential.
Free to read: This content has been made available to all.