Parent Involvement: Contributions of Teacher Efficacy, School Socioeconomic Status, and Other School Characteristics

Explorations in Parent-School Relations

“…The Parent Questionnaire asked participants to give specific information about themselves (employment status, education, family income, marital status, age, and sex) and estimates of their levels of involvement in various forms of parent-school activities-help with homework (hours in average week); other educational activities with children (hours in average week); volunteer work at school (hours in average week); telephone calls with teachers (number in average month); and parent-teacher conferences (average number in semester). Similar estimation procedures have been used successfully in other investigations (Grolnick & Ryan, 1989;Hoover-Dempsey, et al, 1987;Stevenson & Baker, 1987).…”

“…Hoover-Dempsey, Bassler, and Brissie (1987) earlier examined relationships between teacher efficacy and parent involvement. Building on Bandura's work and studies of the role of teacher efficacy in various educational outcomes (Ashton, Webb, & Doda, 1983;Dembo & Gibson, 1985), the authors defined teacher efficacy as "teachers' certainty that their instructional skills are effective" (p. 425).…”

“…That relationship is grounded in the logical probability that teachers with a higher sense of personal teaching efficacy, being more confident of their teaching skills, are more likely to invite parent involvement and to accept parents' initiation of involvement activities (Hoover-Dempsey et al, 1987). Finally, we explored teachers' perceptions of parents' efficacy and involvement, based, in part, on earlier findings of a significant relationship between an "other's'' perceptions of teacher efficacy and selected teacher outcomes (Brissie, Hoover-Dempsey, & Bassler, 1988).…”

Responsibility for teaching: Some international comparisons of teacher perceptions

“…However, teachers may go beyond those requirements in some countries where they believe there is a need. The importance of the relationships between teachers' involvement with parents, teachers' beliefs about their efficacy and possibly their actual performance as teachers, has been investigated by Hoover-Dempsey et al (1987). A strong relationship was found between parent attendance at parent-teacher conferences and teacher efficacy in this study.…”

School-level determinants of teacher collegial interaction: Evidence from lower secondary schools in England, Finland, South Korea, and the USA

“…School socioeconomic status (SES) is most frequently examined as a school demographic variable (Hoover-Dempsey, Bassler, & Brissle, 1987). However, the effect of school SES on teacher behavior is quite controversial.…”