Abstract
Parent involvement in education consists of contributions and expectations made by parents regarding their child’s schooling and education. Parent involvement increases student achievement, decreases maladaptive behaviors, reduces the rate of absentees, and contributes to parity in education. Nonetheless, there are facilitators and barriers associated with the promotion of and/or lack of parent involvement in the schools. In addition, there is a paucity of assessment tools to accurately examine facilitators and barriers associated with parent involvement. Such assessments would allow for schools to begin the process of community outreach to promote the family school partnerships. This present study sought to develop a needs-assessment for school use to assess facilitators and barriers to parent involvement in schools. Education professionals evaluated items and gave input into the assessment tool and its utility. Information collected contributed to the development and refinement of the final version of this needs-assessment. Findings from this study are expected to provide school personnel with a parent involvement assessment that can be utilized to assess the facilitators and barriers of parent involvement. With its use, then, stakeholders and education professionals can begin the initial process of increasing the family school partnerships to contribute to improvements in student achievement.
Highlights
Parent Involvement Parent involvement in children’s education and schooling refers to parents’ dedication of time to and awareness of their child’s educational activities and development (Murray et al, 2014)
When school staff offer the invitation for parent involvement, this begins the potential for development of familyschool partnerships
Based on data collected from the Program Development Utility Questionnaire (PDUQ) (See Table 5), school staff ratings suggested the Parent Involvement Needs-Assessment (PINA) would be useful to promoting parent involvement
Summary
Parent Involvement Parent involvement in children’s education and schooling refers to parents’ dedication of time to and awareness of their child’s educational activities and development (Murray et al, 2014). There are two types of mutually exclusive forms of parent involvement These are home-based and school-based parent involvement (Murray et al, 2014). Home-based parent involvement refers to any education related activities that take place outside the school (Murray et al, 2014). Such practices include parents helping their child with homework, discussing grades and educational practices, and setting educational aspirations and goals. School-based parent involvement refers to any instances of parents establishing a direct relationship with the school (Murray et al, 2014) This type of involvement includes attending parent-teacher meetings, volunteering at their child’s school, and being involved in school events (Murray et al, 2014). School-based parent involvement requires consistent and continuous contact from school staff to be implemented, while home-based parent involvement requires communication from the school in order to be maintained
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