Claims

Ninth-grade teachers report less communication with and academic support for parents than eighth-grade teachers

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 1998 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 2 of 2 entries) · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2003: baselines and conditions change

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q3 i? Ninth-grade teachers report significantly less emphasis on communicating and working with parents than eighth-grade teachers. → Roderick 1998 q3 i? Ninth-grade teachers hold more negative views of parents and report lower trust than eighth-grade teachers. → Roderick 1998 (2)

Evidence

Roderick 1998

Roderick, M., Stone, S., with Arney, M., Chiong, J., DaCosta, K., & Waxman, E. (1998). Changing Standards, Changing Relationships: Building Family-School Relationships to Promote Achievement in High Schools. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://ccsr.uchicago.edu/publications/changing-standards-changing-relationships-building-family-school-relationships-promote

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Consortium teacher surveys in 1994 and 1997; the brief focuses on 1,000 eighth- and ninth-grade teachers. Fewer ninth-grade teachers strongly agreed they work closely with parents, communicate about learning, or invite parents to observe instruction (Figure 2).

"ninth-grade teachers portrayed their schools as placing significantly less emphasis on communicating and working with parents than their eighth-grade counterparts"

Roderick 1998 (2)

Roderick, M., Stone, S., with Arney, M., Chiong, J., DaCosta, K., & Waxman, E. (1998). Changing Standards, Changing Relationships: Building Family-School Relationships to Promote Achievement in High Schools. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://ccsr.uchicago.edu/publications/changing-standards-changing-relationships-building-family-school-relationships-promote

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Same teacher survey data (Figure 3). Ninth-grade teachers were less likely to see parents as supportive, felt less respected, and reported lower trust and partnership with parents than eighth-grade teachers.

"Only 36 percent of the ninth-grade teachers versus 52 percent of the eighth-grade teachers believe that most or nearly all of the teachers in their school feel good about parents’ support for their work"

Discussion

Page metadata
Field Value
type claim
id ninth-grade-teachers-less-parent-communication
title Ninth-grade teachers report less communication with and academic support for parents than eighth-grade teachers
description Ninth-grade teachers report less communication with and academic support for parents than eighth-grade teachers
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 1998
source_checked 2026-10-20
recheck_by 2003
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-08
trust unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources 2 — roderick-1998, roderick-1998-2

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