Parental Involvement and Academic Success
eBook - ePub

Parental Involvement and Academic Success

  1. 228 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Parental Involvement and Academic Success

About this book

Providing an objective assessment of the influence of parental involvement and what aspects of parental participation can best maximize the educational outcomes of students, this volume is structured to guide readers to a thorough understanding of the history, practice, theories, and impact of parental involvement. Cutting-edge research and meta-analyses offer vital insight into how different types of students benefit from parental engagement and what types of parental involvement help the most.

Unique among works on the topic, Parental Involvement and Academic Success:

  • uses meta-analysis to enable readers to understand what the overall body of research on a given topic indicates

  • examines research results in terms of their practical implications

  • focuses significantly on the influence of parental involvement on minority students' academic success

Important reading for anyone involved in home-school relations/parental involvement in education, this book is highly relevant for courses devoted to or which include treatment of the topic.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9781136912863
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education General

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Chapter 1 The History of Parentsā€™ Involvement as a Concept
  6. Chapter 2 The Development of Parental Involvement Research
  7. Chapter 3 Parental Involvement and Elementary School Achievement
  8. Chapter 4 Parental Involvement and Secondary School Achievement
  9. Chapter 5 Parental Involvement and Minority Student Achievement
  10. Chapter 6 Parental Involvement and Issues of Diversity
  11. Chapter 7 Parental Involvement Programs
  12. Chapter 8 Parental Involvement and Family Structureā€™s Influence on Educational Outcomes
  13. Chapter 9 Does Parental Involvement Compensate for the Effects of Divorce (or Single Parenthood)?
  14. Chapter 10 Success and Parental Involvement and What Can Be Done to Enhance Parental Involvement
  15. Chapter 11 What Do We Know and What Do We Still Need to Know?
  16. References
  17. Index