Nuremberg seminar November 2007
The impact of parental involvement on pupil achievement Professor Charles Desforges OBE
Implications knowledge understanding vision strategic planning (and MER) research
School achievement skills esp: literacy attitudes esp: responsibility persistence values esp: citizenship learning
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Factors shaping educational outcomes child’s characteristics family characteristics parental involvement school quality community peer group family support services
Power over learning outcomes
Effects of parents/effect of schools achievement parents / school effects age / 0.05 age / 0.21 age / 0.51 from Sacker et al (2002)
Other outcomes resilience health adjustment
Theories social learning attachment style
Good parenting authoritative not authoritarian conversation/discussion at home confers respect values attitudes effect size 0.4 / 0.5 sd
Barriers to parental involvement extreme poverty and social chaos substance abuse depression the difficult child lack of confidence or knowledge alternative values barriers set up by schools
Parenting and … poverty ethnicity
Implications s trategy for parent support analysis vision personalisation resourcing partnerships research
Reference
Charles Desforges