Developing a scale to measure the diversity of motivations and practices of home-schooling

Implementation of Home-Schooling: Parents’ Practices and Processes

“…The Parent Perceptions of Home-Schooling scale (PPHS) [1] sought to clarify both motivations as well as implementation and practical issues associated with parental choice regarding home-schooling. The content and construct validity of the scale was undertaken via two iterations involving a consultative representative sample of home-schooling parents, followed by a pilot study undertaken with 21 home-schooling parents (see [1], for further details of scale development). The PPHS was subsequently used with 99 homeschooling parents in Western Australia with initial analysis focusing on the first part of the scale related to motivations for home-schooling [4].…”

“…Home-schooling is the practice of parents or carers educating children in a home setting, as opposed to a formal school environment [1,2]. It is the parents' control of the education that makes it home-schooling, rather than where the education takes place [3].…”

“…As government decisions vary between countries, in Australia, where education is mainly state-based, there are also significant differences between jurisdictions. To ensure an opportunity to review and compare practices within a specific cohort of parents, the current research adopts the use of the Parents' Perceptions of Home-Schooling scale (PPHS) [1], to identify implementation practices and issues of home-schooling in one state of Western Australia.…”