School staff substantially underestimate the at-school involvement of parents they label uninvolved¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2012 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2017: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Nearly all of 17 parents drawn from a staff-generated list of more than 300 'uninvolved' parents reported some form of at-school involvement, often in detail. → Bennett-Conroy 2012

Evidence¶

Bennett-Conroy 2012¶

Waveline Bennett-Conroy. (2012). Engaging Parents of Eighth Grade Students in Parent–Teacher Bidirectional Communication. School Community Journal, 22(2). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1001614

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Phase 1 qualitative interviews with 17 parents randomly chosen from a staff list of parents not known to have at-school involvement. The author links this to prior literature on staff underestimation of parent involvement.

"However, nearly all parents interviewed reported some form of at-school involvement, and in most cases discussed specific episodes and the general character of their at-school involvement in some detail."

Discussion¶

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