Student Report of Parent’s Use of
Encouragement
Last updated: May, 2005
This scale assesses the extent to which a student perceives that his or
her parent (or other family member identified by the student) encourages
student behaviors, interests, and beliefs conducive to achievement during
a representative parental involvement activity, monitoring or helping the
student with homework. The scale was adapted from Martinez-Pons (1996) and
reported in
Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler (2005).
It includes items in the
Parental
Report of Encouragement Scale, altered as appropriate for student perspective
and response.
The scale employed a four-point Likert-type scale: 1 = not true, 2 = a little
true, 3 = pretty true, 4 = very true.
The scale achieved an alpha reliability of .87 as administered to a sample
of 358 public school students in grades 4-6 (Hoover-Dempsey & Sandler,
2005).
Students were asked to respond to the following prompt:
“Dear Student, Families do many different things when they help children
with school. Please think about how your family helps you with school and
fill in the circle that matches what is most true for them. Thank you!”
The person in my family who usually helps me with my homework
encourages me…
1.
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…when I don't feel like doing my schoolwork.
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2.
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…when I have trouble organizing my schoolwork.
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3.
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…to be aware of how I'm
doing with my schoolwork.
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4.
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…to try new ways to do
schoolwork when I'm having a hard time.
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5.
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…when I have trouble doing
my 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 I can
do well in school.
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9.
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…to believe that I can
learn new things.
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10.
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…to ask the teacher for
help when a problem is hard to solve.
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11.
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…to follow the teacher’s
directions.
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12.
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…to explain what I think
to the teacher
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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.
