Engaging with parents: the relationship between school engagement efforts,social class,and learning

Using data from the U.S. Department of Education's (2000) Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998–99 (ECLS-K), this study investigates the relationship between school efforts to engage parents, average socioeconomic status (SES) of families within a school, and kindergarteners' end-of-year reading and mathematics achievement. Drawing from Epstein's (2001 Epstein, J.L. 2001. School, family, and community partnerships: Preparing educators and improving schools, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.  [Google Scholar]) parent involvement framework, the 4 types of engagement efforts explored are intended to promote communication, parent volunteering, parent influence in school decision making, and parenting skills. We apply multilevel methods to explore the impact of schools' efforts to engage parents on student achievement. Our findings indicate certain types of school efforts to engage parents influence achievement. Depending on average school SES, efforts to promote volunteering has a differential impact on reading achievement, efforts to involve parents in school decision making has a differential impact on mathematics achievement, and efforts to increase communication and promote parenting skills have a differential impact on reading and mathematics achievement.     

Parental involvement: an issue for Swiss primary school teacher education

Abstract

This article is the Swiss contribution to the European project ‘Collaboration on Improving Students’ Preparation for Family–School Partnerships’. It presents results from a study investigating how Swiss Schools of Teacher Education prepare primary school students for cooperation with the parents of four- to thirteen-year-old pupils. Nine Schools of Teacher Education in the German-speaking part of Switzerland were surveyed. The study conducted questionnaire surveys, key informant interviews and document analysis on this topic. This article focuses on the results for primary school teacher education. The findings show that Swiss primary school teacher education programmes accord importance to family–school cooperation. All Schools of Teacher Education cover the topic of family–school cooperation either by conducting special courses on this subject or by connecting the subject with other courses. However, the content and extent of the coverage of and linkages to family–school cooperation in the courses largely depends on the individual educator. Moreover, preparing for family–school cooperation is an important issue during in-field training. The results of this study differ from those in other countries and contradict common prejudices in public perception on the issue in Switzerland.     

Parental involvement in secondary education schools: the views of parents in Greece

The present study explores Greek parents’ views on parental educational involvement and its impact on adolescent scholastic and social development. Specifically, aspects of parental involvement such as the achieved objectives of current parent–school communication, the psychological climate dominating teacher–parent interactions and parents’ suggestions for improvement of current policies and practices are examined. Four hundred and seventy‐five parents participated in the study. Findings showed that family–school communication is believed to be insufficient in Greece, despite the fact that parents tend to: (1) regard their cooperation with teachers as determinative of adolescent academic and psychosocial development; (2) consider teachers to be friendly and caring; and (3) believe that secondary school provides some opportunities for constructive parental involvement. These paradoxes are discussed and explained as a result of radical changes in current social and educational values, principles and objectives.     

Parent involvement and academic outcomes among urban adolescents: examining the role of school engagement

The present study examined the extent to which parent involvement in education was directly and indirectly (via school engagement) related to academic outcomes in an effort to more fully understand the school experiences of urban adolescents. Participants (80% racial/ethnic minority; n = 108) were in grades 6, 7 or 8. In the Fall and subsequent Spring youth completed in-school surveys with items on parental involvement in education, school engagement (affective, behavioural, cognitive engagement) and perceived academic competence. Grades were obtained from official school records. Findings showed that parental involved was positively associated with behavioural and cognitive engagement, which in turn contributed to academic competence and achievement. Results underscore the importance of parental involvement in adolescents’ engagement and academic success and highlight the importance of examining the multiple components of school engagement simultaneously, as we found differential effects for affective, behavioural, and cognitive engagement on academic competence and achievement.     

What counts as successful school subject literacy: differing views from students,teachers, and parents

Research into literacy and school subject performance focuses overwhelmingly on identifying and addressing risk factors associated with underachievement. Strenuous efforts are devoted to diagnosing the causes of literacy failure that are patterned by ethnicity, social class, and gender. This study explores the possibility that equal, or even greater insights, may be achieved by investigating instances of successful school literacy practices. The purpose is to develop contextualized theories to explain the phenomena of success in children from working-class families to identify social and pedagogical factors associated with success. Six case studies of successful students in English, general science, physics, catering, mathematics, and economics are presented. Each case is composed of a triad including the student, teacher, and parent. Data includes interviews with all triad members, classroom observations, and student journals. This paper reports the findings of the present study and comments on how they compare with those international studies of scholastic success in contexts of school and home factors.     

浅议福建省高中体育教师教学动机调查研究

采用文献资料法、问卷调查法、数理统计法等研究方法,对福建省9地市191个高中体育教师进行问卷调查,结果表明:福建省高中体育教师教学动机由高到低依次是志愿动机、成就动机、情趣动机、安稳动机,不同性别、不同年龄高中体育教师教学动机不存在显著性差异,不同职称高中体育教师志愿动机存在显著性差异,参加不同级别培训的体育教师之间在情趣动机上存在高度显著性差异。     

试论中职生职业价值观教育

职业价值观有着其自身形成、发展的规律及特点,并受多种因素影响或制约。中等职业学校学生职业价值观教育对于中职生人生观、价值观的形成具有非常重要的意义,文章在分析了中职生职业价值观教育的必要性及其涵义、特点的基础上,提出了中等职业学校实施职业价值观教育的策略。     

西藏中学生家庭环境与问题行为的关系研究--以藏族中学生为例

采用《家庭环境量表中文版（ FES-V）》和《青少年行为问卷》对拉萨市630名藏族中学生进行问卷调查,探讨中学生的家庭环境与问题行为之间的内在关系。结果发现：中学生的家庭环境中矛盾性、组织性、成功性、独立性和娱乐性与其问题行为存在显著相关,表明家庭环境对中学生问题行为具有显著影响。     

谈师范生的个人素质与中学教育

师范教育作为专门培养中小学师资的行业教育,培养着明天中小学教师职业的履行者,师范学生将担负"以人格塑造人格"这一特殊的使命,其品德发展、人格完善、心理健康和文化专业基础关系着明天的中学教育的发展,师范学生的全面素质的培养和提高非常重要。     

福建省高中体育教师教学风格调查研究

采用问卷调查法、数理统计法、文献资料法等研究方法,对福建省191名高中体育教师进行教学风格问卷调查研究。研究结果表明:福建省高中体育教师教学风格得分从高到低依次是立法型、激进型、整体型、评判型、局部型、保守型、执行型,不同年龄段福建省高中体育教师教学风格不存在显著性差异;不同职称高中体育教师在激进型上存在显著性差异。     

中学体育教师角色期望师生比较研究

采用文献资料法、访谈法、问卷调查法、数据统计法等研究方法,就中学体育教师角色期望对莆田市101位教师和962位学生进行调查,结果表明：师生时体育教师角色总体期望趋向一致,依次是职业道德、教学能力、综合素质、师生关系、个人形象.从不同的视角师生在各个具体内容的期望上存在显著性差异.     

Parental involvement in educational activities in Tanzania: understanding motivational factors

ABSTRACT

In Tanzania, the education system focuses on schools and teachers as key educators of children, while little attention is paid to the home environment. This study examines motivational factors that may influence parental involvement at home and at school, using Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler’s model of parental involvement as a theoretical framework. Participants were 580 parents of Grade 2 children attending primary schools in three districts of Dar Es Salaam. Parents were invited at school to complete a questionnaire. Regression analyses showed that parents’ expectations for children’s school success predicted home involvement, next to parents’ perceived time and energy, child invitations and parents’ self-efficacy. School involvement was predicted by perceived time and energy, and school and child invitations. In a mediation model role construction had an indirect effect on school involvement through child and school invitations and perceived time and energy. Implications for educational policy are discussed.     

中学生社会主义核心价值观教育的途径与方法

中学生社会主义核心价值观教育是思想政治教育的重要内容,其教育的途径与方法体现出思想政治教育原理与方法的要求。本文根据当前中学生社会主义核心价值观教育的资料及自己在社会主义核心价值观教育上的一些经验与方法,详细分析了中学生社会主义核心价值观教育的途径与方法,指出中学在社会主义核心价值观教育上必须创新教育理念、丰富教育内容和载体,净化教育环境,改进教育的途径和方法,只有这样才能提高社会主义核心价值观教育的实效性,促进社会主义核心价值观与中学生自身价值观的融合。     

厦门市集美区中学生参与阳光体育运动情况的调查研究

本文对厦门市集美区中学生参与阳光体育运动的情况进行问卷调查,统计表明:集美区中学生参与阳光体育运动的认知程度较高,且女生高于男生;对开展阳光体育运动的态度明确,支持力度大;参加阳光体育运动的时间主要集中在体育课和课外体育活动上;所参加的运动项目主要是慢跑、篮球、羽毛球和乒乓球.同时,也指出了集美区中学在开展阳光体育运动过程中有待完善之处,旨在为集美区中学更好开展阳光体育运动提供理论上的指导     

I blame the mother: educating parents and the gendered nature of parenting orders

There has been an increasing focus from policymakers, academics and journalists on parents as the source of their child's anti-social behaviour both in and outside of the formal school setting. One intervention proffered is the parenting order. The language of parenting orders and parenting interventions obscures a distinct truth, that parenting orders are really mothering orders. This paper draws on findings generated during interviews with 26 parents attending a parenting education programme in a city in the north of England. This paper explores the gendered nature of parental education, in that the overwhelming majority of parents ordered by the courts to attend parenting classes are women. The paper explores mothers' experiences of receiving coercive parenting education, examines the reasons why mothers were given parenting orders and explores the nature of these mothers' relationships with their child's school.     

Electronic portfolios: Perspectives of students, teachers and parents

This study explores the perspectives of students, teachers and parents to evaluate the use of digital portfolios as an additional way to capture and enhance the learning of elementary students in a public school setting and as an opportunity to communicate this learning to parents. The research questions address four problems: complex assessment of learning, parental participation, and student and teacher satisfaction and the impact of the portfolio on teaching methods. Particularly, we are interested in the subjective satisfaction of students, teachers and parents in the portfolio development process. We are also interested in whether students learn to reflect constructively on their work, whether teachers have changed their teaching methods and whether parents believe the portfolio was used or could be used for enhanced communications.     

学校体育教学与中学生心理健康研究

在全面推进素质教育的进程中,加强中学生心理健康已成为中学体育教育的重要任务之一．用文献法、分析法阐述对学校体育教学与中学生心理健康的关联性进行了初步研究,就中学生心理健康现状、心理缝康教育在学校体育教学课程中的渗透表现以及二者的相互作用．     

卓越中学数学教师的特质及培养途径

教师的工作是塑造灵魂、塑造生命、塑造人的工作,教师在学生成长成才中起着非常重要的作用。为了适应基础教育的改革发展,充分发挥示范引领作用,教育部启动了卓越中学教师培养工程。研究卓越中学数学教师的内涵和特征,并在此基础上提出培养策略,对推动教师教育综合改革,全面提升教师培养质量有着重要作用。     

中小学校园安全教育的机制研究

近年来,中小学校园安全问题成为社会关注的热点问题,中小学安全教育越来越受到国家的重视和社会的关注,相关的法律法规政策制度等日渐完备,但尚未形成完善的校园安全教育机制。安全教育是中小学生知识结构中的重要组成部分,也是中小学生人文素养的重要内容,更是学校正常教学秩序和学生生活学习的前提条件和根本保障。但在应试教育的体制下,考试科目的学习成为重要内容,学校安全教育不受重视,制约着我国中小学安全教育的实施和发展。     

中小学师资队伍综合化发展问题研究

中小学师资队伍的综合化发展。决定了群体培养的特殊性。即在组成方式、运行机制及管理形式方面形成独特品格，为中小学师资队伍综合化发展提供了客观依据。