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Kemp, Michelle R. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore Pennsylvania Title I school systems' methods of communication of expectations and standards for school readiness with prospective kindergarten students' parents prior to enrollment. Also explored within this study is the importance of local school systems communicating with parents regarding cognitive and…
Descriptors: Parent School Relationship, Communication Strategies, School Readiness, Kindergarten
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Symeou, Loizos; Roussounidou, Eleni; Michaelides, Michalis – School Community Journal, 2012
This paper describes a teacher in-service training program on teacher-parent communication in Cyprus and its impact on teacher trainees. Data were gathered through questionnaires completed by teachers prior to their training and after having tried, in real school settings, the communication skills and approaches taught during the course. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Communication Skills, Self Esteem
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Gessulat, Juliane; Oppermann, Elisa; Cohen, Franziska; Anders, Yvonne – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2023
Parental self-efficacy (PSE) is an essential predictor of parenting practices and child development. The content-specificity of PSE is not well understood: Previous studies are based on either measure of general parental self-efficacy or task-specific parental self-efficacy but not measures of both constructs. Thus, we do not know how both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Infants, Self Efficacy
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Huerta, Adrian H.; Rios-Aguilar, Cecilia; Ramirez, Daisy – Community College Review, 2022
Objective: Community colleges, which can lead students to job opportunities and well-paying careers, are one of the main entry points to higher education for student parents. We use a conceptual framework that bridges career capital and community cultural wealth to understand student parents' college and career trajectories. This study asks (a)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Parents, Minority Group Students
Irene Christine Arteaga Marquez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine if or to what extent a relationship existed between parents' perceptions of principal trust and parents' self-perception of their involvement components of communicating and decision making for parents and caregivers of students with severe/significant disabilities in K-12th…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Deslandes, Rollande; Rivard, Marie-Claude – School Community Journal, 2013
The new Québec curriculum is different from other curriculum reforms in that it is based on a competency approach, both cross-curricular and disciplinary. It thus means a move from knowledge-based to competency-based assessments which represents a real challenge to parents who may find it hard to understand learning assessments and their child's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment
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Takala, Marjatta; Viljamaa, Elina; Fredäng, Päivi – Support for Learning, 2018
This study explores the choices made by parents of children who are severely hearing-impaired or deaf. It also gives ideas how to support these children at school. In a six-year longitudinal study, eleven families completed the study questionnaire four times. Questions were related to choice of hearing aid, methods of communication and educational…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Children, Decision Making
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Fletcher-Watson, Sue; Apicella, Fabio; Auyeung, Bonnie; Beranova, Stepanka; Bonnet-Brilhault, Frederique; Canal-Bedia, Ricardo; Charman, Tony; Chericoni, Natasha; Conceição, Inês C.; Davies, Kim; Farroni, Teresa; Gomot, Marie; Jones, Emily; Kaale, Anett; Kapica, Katarzyna; Kawa, Rafal; Kylliäinen, Anneli; Larsen, Kenneth; Lefort-Besnard, Jeremy; Malvy, Joelle; Manso de Dios, Sara; Markovska-Simoska, Silvana; Millo, Inbal; Miranda, Natercia; Pasco, Greg; Pisula, Ewa; Raleva, Marija; Rogé, Bernadette; Salomone, Erica; Schjolberg, Synnve; Tomalski, Przemyslaw; Vicente, Astrid M.; Yirmiya, Nurit – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Investigation into the earliest signs of autism in infants has become a significant sub-field of autism research. This work invokes specific ethical concerns such as use of "at-risk" language, communicating study findings to parents and the future perspective of enrolled infants when they reach adulthood. This study aimed to ground this…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Autism, At Risk Persons, Focus Groups
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Boyer, Wanda – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2009
This phenomenological research investigated what fifteen preschool educators have come to know about children's self-regulation and emotion regulation development, and how we can better enable them to communicate with parents about their children's development. The data sources included over 100 pages of transcripts, field notes and journal…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Focus Groups, Phenomenology, Preschool Education
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Seitsinger, Anne M.; Felner, Robert D.; Brand, Stephen; Burns, Amy – Journal of School Psychology, 2008
As schools move forward with comprehensive school reform, parents' roles have shifted and been redefined. Parent-teacher communication is critical to student success, yet how schools and teachers contact parents is the subject of few studies. Evaluations of school-change efforts require reliable and useful measures of teachers' practices in…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Academic Achievement, Measures (Individuals), Parents
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Sofronoff, Kate; Lee, Jessica; Sheffield, Jeanie; Attwood, Tony – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Children with Asperger's syndrome are often reported by their parents as having difficulties communicating affection. This study aimed to develop a valid measure of affectionate behaviour that could be used to investigate and quantify these anecdotal reports and then be used in further intervention research. Using parent and expert focus…
Descriptors: Children, Asperger Syndrome, Affective Behavior, Psychological Needs
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Ladky, Mary; Peterson, Shelley Stagg – Multicultural Perspectives, 2008
This article brings together the perspectives of 21 immigrant parents who speak eight different languages and have been in Canada less than six years with those of 61 teachers and 32 principals who work in schools with English as a second language (ESL) populations of 20% or greater who have been recognized for successfully involving immigrant…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
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Dimitra Eleftheriadou; Anastasia Vlachou – School Community Journal, 2023
Parental involvement, as well as parent and teacher relations, have been considered as a significant factor that affects children's schooling. Still, in order to foster inclusion, parent-teacher relations need further investigation. This study explores parent and teacher perceptions of parental involvement in the education of students with…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Parents, Parent Student Relationship
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McVey, Mary D. – Journal of Early Education and Family Review, 1999
Reports that exposure to televised violence results in increased aggressive attitudes and behaviors, desensitization toward real violence, and unrealistic fears of victimization. Maintains that teachers can effect change by being knowledgeable about the impact of television, communicating to parents ways in which negative effects can be reduced,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Children, Mass Media Effects, Parent Participation
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Jessica White; Eunkyung Yoon; Jaegoo Lee – School Social Work Journal, 2023
Parental involvement in education has significantly contributed to positive youth development. This study applied Epstein's six constructs of parental involvement (parenting, communicating, volunteering, decision making, learning, and collaborating) and examined the effects of different types of parental involvement on children's emotions and…
Descriptors: Parents, Family Involvement, Parent Participation, Elementary School Students
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