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Home Schooling: A Study To Determine Student Achievement And Family Characteristic Relationships, Dennis Blackmore

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The problem of this study was to analyze students receiving home schooling and their family characteristic variables relating to academic achievement. The following research questions were intended to develop a plan of attack to reach conclusions: Do home school students have higher percentile scores on standardized achievement tests than national average? Do home school students have higher percentile scores in specific subject areas on standardized achievement tests than the national average? Do family characteristics relate to student achievement?