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From Homeschooling To Unschooling: A Comparison Of Academic Achievement, Myra Breen
From Homeschooling To Unschooling: A Comparison Of Academic Achievement, Myra Breen
Masters Theses
Within the homeschooling community, there are many options for educational methods that a family might choose. Unschooling, which is an approach to education that emphasizes self-directed learning and does not follow a set curriculum, is often viewed as inferior to a traditional pre-determined curriculum.
The purpose of this research was to determine whether students who come from families who use traditional curricula to educate their children have drastically different assessment scores from the students in families where they follow their own interests and learn from those activities.
This study uses a mixed-methods approach. There are qualitative results based on case …