Teacher Practical Guidance:

Parental Involvement with School

Category: External

Rank Order

43

Effect Size

0.50

Achievement Gain %

19

How-To Strategies

Three Types of Parent Involvement: Kim (2022)

  1. Academic Socialization
  2. School Involvement
  3. Home Involvement

 

Positive Parent Involvement Factors: Castro (2015) & Senechal (2006)

  • Having high academic expectations  for their children
  • Developing and maintaining communication with teachers and school
  • Engaged in after-school activities of children
  • Parent involvement in enrichment activities that extend learning at home
  • Reading at home and providing books and literacy materials
  • Listening to children read

 

Negative Parent Involvement Factors: 

  • When a parents involvement in schooling involves a “surveillance” approach
  • Low expectations for children
  • Blaming school and teachers
  • Berating children for the performance (or lack thereof) at school

How-To Resources

Link – ARTICLE (Cult of Pedagogy) Building better collaboration between families and school

References

Hong, S. & Ho, H.Z. (2005). Direct and indirect longitudinal effects of parental involvement on student achievement. Journal of Educational Psychology, 97(1), 32

Kim, S (2022). Fifty years of parent involvement and achievement research: A second order meta-analysis. Educational Research Review, 37 (11) Link

Parent Involvement with School

DEFINITIONS

DATA

  • 24 Meta-analysis reviews

  • 1,927 Research studies

Hattie (2023) p. 127

QUOTES

“Parents involved in school is important…but the most impactful way parents can be successfully involved  with school is parents setting high expectations for students at home with associated messaging that school is important and valuable.” Kim (2022)

 

“The higher the hope and expectations of parents concerning the educational attainment of their child, the higher the student’s own educational expectations and, ultimately, the greater the student’s academic achievement.” Hong & Ho (2005)