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Parent/Family
Involvement Workgroup
What is the purpose of the Parent/Family Involvement Workgroup?
To develop a measure of parent
involvement/parent satisfaction that can be used for evaluation and
accountability in the context of Focused Monitoring.
What states are included in the
Parent/Family Involvement Workgroup?
The states that have participated in
the first phase of work are
New Hampshire,
New Mexico,
Mississippi, and
Florida.
Activities:
- Meeting with groups of
stakeholders to develop measure content
- New
Hampshire - March 19, 2003
- Kentucky
(representatives of the Mid-South region) - April 21,
2003
- New
Mexico - May 6, 2003
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Mississippi - May 7, 2003
- Miami
(local representatives) - May 29, 2003
Method:
Participants were provided
with sample items reflecting the 6 types of parent
participation included in Dr. Joyce Epstein’s parent
involvement model as
well as several categories of client satisfaction.
Participants brainstormed in
small groups and generated additional items addressing the
particular concerns
of parents of infants, toddlers, children, and youth with
disabilities.
Outcome: Development of a potential item bank
consisting of approximately 500 items
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- Two item review sessions
convened by PACERS
Method:
A group of ethnically and
linguistically diverse parents reviewed the entire set of items and
provided ratings of item importance and projected endorsability. A
second group provided recommendations as to the most important items
in each of four areas: (a) school/program efforts to promote
meaningful parent involvement; (b) school/program efforts aimed at
improving results for infants, toddlers, children, and youth with
disabilities; (c) child outcomes; (d) parents’ self-reports of
involvement.
Outcome: Prioritization, for purposes of initial piloting, of
a reasonably small set of items representing important content
within each of the four areas.
- Analysis
of extant survey data
Method:
Rasch analysis (calibration) of 37
dichotomous-response items used in a state-administered survey of
parents' with over 30,000 responses.
Outcome: Preliminary analyses indicate (a) a factor structure
that matches the conceptual categories used by Workgroup, (b)
unidimensionality of each factor, (c) the need to select items that
provoke a range of endorsements (not all 'yeses' or all 'no's', and
(d) the need for a larger number of response choices for each item
to increase measure reliability.
Resources and References:
An exhaustive search for existing surveys of parent involvement and/or
parent satisfaction was conducted.
Parent Involvement
and Parent Satisfaction Surveys
Located as of July 2003
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1.
Arizona Charter School Parent Satisfaction Survey. Available
online at |
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http://www.asbcs.state.az.us/asbcs/PSS%202002.htm |
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2. Family
Involvement Questionnaire. Fantuzzo, J., Tighe, E., &
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Childs, S.
(2000). Family involvement questionnaire: A multivariate
assessment of family participation in early childhood education.
Journal of Educational Psychology, 92, 367-376 |
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3.
Florida Department of Education 2003 Parent Survey.
Available |
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from the University of Miami ESE Project
ejoseph@miami.edu |
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4.
High School and Family Partnerships: Parent Survey.
Epstein, J. L., |
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Connors, L. J., &
Salinas , K. C. (1993). High school and family partnerships:
Questionnaires for teachers, parents and students. Center on
School, Family, and Community Partnerships. Baltimore,
MD: Johns
Hopkins University
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Measure of School, Family and Community Partnerships.
Epstein, J., |
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L., Sanders, M.
G. Simon, B. S., Salinas, K. C., Jansorn, N. R., & Van Voorhuis,
F. L. (2002). School, family, and community partnerships.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. |
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6. National Survey of Parents of Public School Students.
Bennett, Petts, |
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Blumenthal.
(1998).
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7. 1996 National Household Education Survey (NHES: 96) |
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Questionnaires:
Screener/Household and Library, Parent and Family
Involvement in Education and Civic Involvement, Youth Civic
Involvement, and Adult Civic Involvement. National Center for
Education Statistics. (September, 1997). 1996 National Household
Education Survey (NHES: 96) Questionnaires: Screener/Household
and Library, Parent and Family
involvement in Education and Civic Involvement, Youth Civic
Involvement, and Adult Civic Involvement. Available online at
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http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=9725 |
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Parent Interview - Wave 1. National Longitudinal
Transition Study - 2 |
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(NLTS2)
(2002). |
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Parent Involvement Measure. Grolnick, W. S., Benjet, C.,
Kurowski, |
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C.O., & Apostoleris, N. H. (1997).
Predictors of parent involvement in children's
schooling. Journal of Educational
Psychology, 89, 538-548. |
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10. Parent
Involvement Questionnaire. Watson, L. M. (1997). A
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relationship
between a training program and parents' involvement in the
education of
their children with disabilities. Unpublished doctoral
dissertation, Adelphi
University: New York. |
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11. Parent
Satisfaction Survey (British Columbia). Available online at |
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http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/sat_survey/phone_results.pdf |
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12. Parent
Survey. King, J. A., & Bond, T. G. (2003). Measuring client |
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satisfaction with public education I: Meeting competing demands
in
establishing state-wide benchmarks. Journal of Applied
Measurement,
4(2), 111-123 |
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13. The
Parent-Teacher Involvement Questionnaire: Parent Version
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Fast Track). Available online at
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http://www.fasttrackproject.org/techrept/p/ptp/ |
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14. School and
Family Partnerships: Survey of Parents in |
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Elementary
and Middle Grades. Epstein, J. L., Connors, L. J., &
Salinas, K. C. (1993). School and family partnerships:
Questionnaires for teachers and parents in elementary and middle
grades. Center on School, Family, and Community
Partnerships. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University. |
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15. Special
Education Elementary Longitudinal Study (SEELS)
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Draft
Parent Interview. SRI International. (May, 1999). Special
Educational Elementary Longitudinal Study (SEELS) Draft Parent
Interview available online at |
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http://www.seels.net/designdocs/pi_cover_toc.htm |
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16. Survey of
Parents, Students, & Staff Related to Information, |
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Training &
Participation (November 2000). New Hampshire Department of
Education Bureau of Special Education Services.
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17. Survey on
Family and School Partnerships in Public Schools, K- 8. |
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National Center for Education Statistics. (1998). Parent
involvement in children's education: Efforts by public
elementary schools. NCES Fast Response Survey System (FRSS)
Retrieved December 19, 2002 from |
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http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/98032.pdf |
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