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Parents’ And Teachers’ Beliefs About Parental Involvement In Schooling, Mary Kelly Haack
Parents’ And Teachers’ Beliefs About Parental Involvement In Schooling, Mary Kelly Haack
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Parental involvement in schooling is critical for children’s academic success. Despite its importance, parental involvement appears to be discouragingly low. Attribution theory may provide an explanation for perceived limited parental participation in specific activities to support their children's schooling and for strained parent/teacher relations. This study identified and compared the causal attributions made by teachers and parents for a hypothetical situation in which a parent was not sufficiently involved in their elementary aged child’s schooling. In addition, differences in attributions based on the education level of the parent were examined. Participants for the study were 80 regular education teachers in …