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Scale: Parents Choice of Involvement (10 items) reported standardized alpha =  ?

Source: Lab developed

Response format and scale
All items in the scale use a Never to Daily response format:
Never = 1, 1 or 2 times this year = 2, 4 or 5 times this year = 3, once a week = 4, A few times a week =5, Daily=6

Instructions
Parents and families do many different things when they are involved in their children's education. We would like to know how often you have done the following SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.

Scale Scoring
Total scale scores range from 10 to 60. Higher scores indicate that the parent reports being involved in more a variety of forms.

Items
Someone in this family talks with this child about the school day.
Someone in this family supervises this child’s homework.
Someone in this family helps out at this child’s school.
Someone in this family attends special events at school.
Someone in this family helps this child study for tests.
Someone in this family volunteers to go on class field trips.
Someone in this family attends PTA meetings.
Someone in this family practices spelling, math, or other skills with this child.
Someone in this family reads with this child.
Someone in this family goes to the school’s open-house.


The Family-School Partnership Lab is part of the Psychology and Human Development Department, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.