Parental Report of Modeling
Last updated: May, 2005
This scale assesses parents’ self-reports of modeling strategies for solving
problems, self-regulating, and learning. The scale was adapted from Martinez-Pons
(1996) and was used during our recent three-year 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 used with a sample of 358 parents of
public school students in grades 4-6 was .94, as reported in 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 show this child that we …
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.
