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The Family-School Partnership
Lab at Vanderbilt University is dedicated to the scientific investigation
of the reciprocal relationships among families, schools, and children.
- NEW! We recently
completed three book chapters and are in the process of loading them
to our site. Stay tuned!
Walker, J. M. T., Hoover-Dempsey, K. V., Ice, C. L., & Whitaker, M.C.
(2009). Parental involvement supports better student learning. In R.
Deslandes (Ed.), International Perspectives on Student Outcomes and
Homework: Family-School-Community Partnerships (pp. 25-38). NY: Routledge.
Hoover-Dempsey, K.V., Ice, C.L., & Whitaker, M.C. (in press). “We’re
way past reading together:” Why and how does parental involvement during
adolescence make sense? In Hill, N., & Chao, R. (Eds.), Family–school
relationships in adolescence: Linking interdisciplinary research. New York:
Teachers College Press.
Hoover-Dempsey, K.V., Whitaker, M.C., & Ice, C.L. (in press). Motivation
and commitment to family-school partnerships. Invited chapter in Christenson,
S.L., & Reschly, A.L. (Eds.), Handbook on school-family partnerships
for promoting student competence. New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis
Group.
This website contains information on papers and measures developed
during the course of our research on the parental involvement
process.
A recent major project involved a three-year research program
designed to a) develop and refine scales necessary to test the Hoover-Dempsey & Sandler (1995, 1997) model
of parental involvement and b) examine elements of the parental
involvement process described by the model. The project was funded
by the Office of Educational Research and Innovation (now Institute
for Educational Science): OERI Grant # R305T010673:
The Social Context of Parental Involvement: A
Path to Enhanced Achievement.
Information on scales developed during this program
project, a brief overview of some empirical results, a summary
of changes to the original model suggested by scale development
and related conceptual work, as well as appendices including the scales
and questionnaires (parent and student) used in the final study of
this project are reported in:
Hoover-Dempsey, K.V.,
& Sandler, H.M. (2005). Final Performance
Report for OERI Grant # R305T010673: The Social Context of Parental
Involvement: A Path to Enhanced Achievement. Presented to Project
Monitor, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education,
March 22, 2005.
One goal of the three-year research program was
effective and helpful communication of study findings to participating
schools. One sample of reports to schools, drawn from the first
of the four specific studies included in the project, may be found
by clicking here. Single copies of the
report may be downloaded and printed for the reader’s personal
research and study only.
Papers from the longer term research effort, scale
descriptions related to recent and prior work, information on
current projects, and our original model of the parental involvement
process may be accessed through the links on the left-hand side
of this page.
Please contact us if you have difficult obtaining
documents from our site, at manya.c.whitaker@vanderbilt.edu.
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