zondag 14 februari 2016

Aspects of parent involvement

Aspects of parent involvement ---------------------------

1 - Performance orientation
  • Talking with the child about its results 
  • Looking at and discussing about the child’s school tasks it brought at home
  • Reacting on the child’s questions/signals about school, learning, homework
  • Paying the child a compliment about good results or behaviour at school
  • Letting know the child that its efforts are appreciated
  • Interrogating the child’s lessons 

2 - Parent-teacher communication
  • Communicating with the teacher about the child’s school results
  • Communicating with the teacher about the child’s behaviour
  • Communicating with the teacher about how the child feels at school

3 - Participation in school
  • Being member of the parent committee or another board at school
  • Being present at activities organised by school
  • Being volunteer on activities organised by school

4 - Cognitive stimulating home environment
  • Playing party games with child
  • Encouraging the child to read books 
  • Parent themselves read books and explicit their interest in books to the child
  • Watching informative television programs with the child or encouraging the child to watch such programs
  • Doing creative things with the child 
  • Making cultural excursions 

5 - Parent-child communication
  • Talking with the child about activities he/she has done at school 
  • Talking with the child about other things happened at school (for example: contact with classmates, incidents on the playground)
  • Trying to find out what the child likes doing at school
  • Talking with the child about its behaviour 

6 - Structuring home climate
  • There are rules about how long the child is allowed to play electronic games
  • There are rules about the television programs the child is allowed to watch
  • There are rules about the time the child is allowed to watch television


Group differences in parental involvement ---------------------------

Predicting parent characteristics

1 - Educational level
  •   Lower secondary education
  •   Higher secondary education
  •   Higher education

2 - Home language
  •   Dutch
  •   Non-native speaker

3 - Family structure
  •   Traditional
  •   Single parent
  •   Recomposed 


Predicting child characteristics

1 - Perceived learning achievement
  •   Lower achiever  
  •   Medium achiever
  •   Higher achiever

2 - Perceived wellbeing
  •   Low wellbeing
  •   Medium wellbeing
  •   High wellbeing

3 - Perceived behaviour
  •   Bad behaviour

[Bron: Parents’, teachers’ and children’s perception of parental involvement in relation with pupils’ learning achievement and wellbeing - Lien Ghysens, Ghent University, Belgium]