Parental Report of Encouragement
Last updated: May, 2005
This scale assesses parents’ self-reports of behaviors during involvement
focused on encouraging the child in his or her schoolwork and learning. Adapted
from Martinez-Pons (1996), the scale was used during our recent study of
the parental involvement process (
Hoover-Dempsey
& Sandler, 2005).
The scale employed a six-point Likert-type response scale: 1 = not at all
true, 2 = a little bit true, 3 = somewhat true, 4 = often true, 5 = mostly
true, 6 = completely true.
Alpha reliability for the scale when administered to a sample of 358 parents
of public school students in grades 4-6 was .92 (Hoover-Dempsey & Sandler,
2005).
Parents were asked to respond to the following prompt:
“Parents and families do many different things when they help their children
with schoolwork. We would like to know how true the following things are
for you and your family when you help your child with schoolwork. Please
think about
the current school year as you read and respond to each
item.”
We encourage this child …
1.
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… when he or she doesn’t
feel like doing schoolwork.
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2.
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... when he or she has
trouble organizing schoolwork.
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3.
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... to try new ways to
do schoolwork when he or she is having a hard time.
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4.
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... to be aware of how
he or she is doing with schoolwork.
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5.
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... when he or she has
trouble doing schoolwork.
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6.
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... to look for more information
about school subjects.
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7.
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... to develop an interest
in schoolwork.
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8.
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... to believe that he/she
can do well in school.
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9.
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... to stick with problems
until he/she solves it.
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10.
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... to believe that he/she
can learn new things.
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11.
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... to ask other people
for help when a problem is hard to solve.
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12.
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... to explain what he/she
thinks to the teacher.
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13.
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... to follow the teacher’s
directions.
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References:
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.
Martinez-Pons, M. (1996). Test of a model of parental inducement
of academic self-regulation.
Journal of Experimental Education,
64, 213-227.
