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Title: Leveling the Home Advantage: Assessing the Effectiveness of Parental Involvement in Elementary School
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Domina, Thurston |
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Leveling the Home Advantage: Assessing the Effectiveness of Parental Involvement in Elementary School Sociology of Education 78,3 (July 2005): 233-249. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4148916 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Academic Development; Elementary School Students; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Parent-School involvement; Parental Influences; Parental Investments; School Characteristics/Rating/Safety; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In the past two decades, a great deal of energy has been dedicated to improving children's education by increasing parents' involvement in school. However, the evidence on the effectiveness of parental involvement is uneven. Whereas policy makers and theorists have assumed that parental involvement has wide-ranging positive consequences, many studies have shown that it is negatively associated with some children's outcomes. This article uses data from the children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 to estimate time-lagged growth models of the effect of several types of parental involvement on scores on elementary school achievement tests and the Behavioral Problems Index. The findings suggest that parental involvement does not independently improve children's learning, but some involvement activities do prevent behavioral problems. Interaction analyses suggest that the involvement of parents with low socioeconomic status may be more effective than that of parents with high socioeconomic status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Domina, Thurston. "Leveling the Home Advantage: Assessing the Effectiveness of Parental Involvement in Elementary School." Sociology of Education 78,3 (July 2005): 233-249.
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