The Family-School Partnership Lab

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For the most recent versions of the scales used in the papers below, please go to our scale description website. You will find parent and student measures listed in the model. Teacher measures (as seen in Hoover-Dempsey et al., 2002, and Hoover-Dempsey et al., 2001) are listed below the model.

Selected Published Papers

Green, C. L., Walker, J. M. T., Hoover-Dempsey, K. V., & Sandler, H.
(2007). Parents’ motivations for involvement in children’s education: An empirical test of a theoretical model of parental involvement. Journal of Educational Psychology. 99, 532-544.

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APA policy does allow us to make a draft version of the paper available as a Microsoft Word document. This version may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. Used with permission of the American Psychological Association and the Journal of Educational Psychology. Copyright © 2007. All rights reserved.

Green, C. L. & Hoover-Dempsey, K. V. (2007). Why do parents home-school? A systematic examination of parental involvement. Education and Urban Society, 39, 264-285.

This article is not available for download at this time; however, a pdf may be downloaded from Sage Publishing:

http://eus.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/39/2/264

Walker, J. M. T., & Hoover-Dempsey, K. V. (2006).Why research on parental
involvement is important to classroom management. In C. M. Evertson & C. S. Weinstein (Eds.), Handbook of Classroom Management: Research, Practice and Contemporary Issues (pp 665-684). NY: Lawrence Erlbaum.

This article is available in PDF format.

Hoover-Dempsey, K. V., Walker, J. M. T., & Sandler, H. M., (2005). Parents' motivations for involvement in their children's education. In E. N. Patrikakou, R. P. Weisberg, S. Redding, and H. J. Walberg, (Eds.), School-Family Partnerships for Children's Success (pp. 40-56). NY: Teachers College Press.

This article is available in PDF format.

    We would like to thank all authors, The Elementary School Journal, and
    the University of Chicago Press for generously allowing us to post the
    article on our site.© 2005 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.

Hoover-Dempsey, K. V., Wilkins, A. S., O’Connor, K. P. J., & Sandler, H. M. (April, 2004). Parent role construction for involvement: Interactions among theoretical, measurement and pragmatic issues in instrument development. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Hoover-Dempsey, K. V., Walker, J. M. T., Jones, K. P., & Reed, R. P. (2002). Teachers Involving Parents (TIP): An in-service teacher education program for enhancing parental involvement. Teaching and Teacher Education, 18(7), 1-25.

By request of the publisher, this article is not available in PDF format.
Rather, this article is provided as a Microsoft Word document.

    We would like to thank all authors, Teaching and Teacher Education, and
    Elsevier Science for generously allowing us to post the article on our site.
    © 2002 by Elsevier Science. All rights reserved.
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Hoover-Dempsey, K. V., Battiato, A. C., Walker, J. M. T., Reed, R. P., Dejong, J. M., & Jones, K. P. (2001). Parental involvement in homework. Educational Psychologist, 36, 195-210.

    We would like to thank all authors, The Educational Psychologist, and
    Lawrence Erlbaum Associates for generously allowing us to post the article
    on our site.© 2001 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. All rights reserved.

Hoover-Dempsey, K.V., & Sandler, H. (1997). Why do parents become involved in their children’s education? Review of Educational Research, 67(1) 3-42.

Hoover-Dempsey, K. V., Bassler, O. C., & Burow, R. (1995). Parents’ reported involvement in students’ homework: Strategies and practices. The Elementary School Journal, 95(5), 435-450.

    We would like to thank all authors, The Elementary School Journal, and
    the University of Chicago Press for generously allowing us to post the
    article on our site.© 1995 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.

Hoover-Dempsey, K. V., & Sandler, H. (1995). Parental involvement in children’s education: Why does it make a difference? Teachers College Record, 97(2), 310-331.

    We would like to thank all authors, the Teachers College Record, and the
    Blackwell Publishing for generously allowing us to post the article on our
    site.© 1995 by Blackwell Publishing. All rights reserved.

Hoover-Dempsey, K. V., Bassler, O. C., & Brissie, J. S. (1992). Explorations in parent-school relations. Journal of Educational Research, 85(5), 287-294.

    Used with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation.
    Published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC
    20036-1802. Copyright © 1992. All rights reserved.
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Hoover-Dempsey, K. V., Bassler, O. C., & Brissie, J. S. (1987). Parent involvement: Contributions of teacher efficacy, school socioeconomic status, and other school characteristics. American Educational Research Journal, 24(3), 417-435.

This article is available in PDF format.

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Selected Papers Currently in Press

Walker, J. M. T., Green, C. L., Hoover-Dempsey, K. V., & Sandler, H. M. (in progress). The influence of parental involvement on student learning attributes.

Green, C. L., Hoover-Dempsey, K. V., Sandler, H., & Walker, J. M. T. (submitted). Latino parents’ motivations for involvement in their children’s education.