| 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
- 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
| 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., & Childs, S. |
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(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 from |
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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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| 5.
Measure of School, Family and Community Partnerships. Epstein, J.,
L., |
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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). Available online at
http://www.pta.org/programs/parentsur/ |
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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
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=9725 |
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| 8. Parent
Interview - Wave 1. National Longitudinal Transition Study - 2
(NLTS2) |
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(2002). Available at http://www.nlts2.org/wave1_parent_interview5a.pdf |
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| 9.
Parent Involvement Measure. Grolnick, W. S., Benjet, C.,
Kurowski, C.O., & |
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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
relationship |
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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
http://www.fasttrackproject.org/techrept/p/ptp/ |
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| 14. School
and Family Partnerships: Survey of Parents in Elementary |
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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) Draft |
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Parent Interview. SRI International. (May, 1999). Special
Educational Elementary Longitudinal Study (SEELS) Draft Parent
Interview available online at http://www.seels.net/designdocs/pi_cover_toc.htm |
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| 16.
Survey
of Parents, Students, & Staff Related to Information, Training
& |
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Participation
(November 2000). New Hampshire Department of Education
Bureau of Special Education Services,
http://www.ed.state.nh.us/SpecialEd/special1.htm |
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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
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/98032.pdf
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