Parental evaluation of teachers’ competences and characteristics during COVID-19 pandemic homeschooling

Abstract

With the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, school-related closures and the hasty transition into homeschooling, parents were required to take a more active and positive role than ever before in collaboration with their children’s educators. Thus, with this unprecedented situation, parents became an important source of information during the pandemic. Considering this unique event, the study at hand aims to explore parents’ perspectives regarding primary and upper secondary school teachers’ digital competence, digital differentiated instruction, and feedback during the first SARS-CoV-2 school shutdown in Germany. Additionally, the study examined parents’ evaluation of teachers’ characteristics. Results reveal that parental ratings were generally positive. Moreover, parents with children attending primary schools perceived and evaluated teachers’ digital competence and digital differentiated teaching highly, and perceived significantly more teacher feedback than parents whose children attend upper secondary school. In addition, positive correlations were found between parents’ evaluations of teachers’ feedback and how motivated, appreciative, and devoted teachers are perceived to be. Practical implications and further research areas are discussed.

Bibliometric Analysis of Research Developments on Differentiated Instruction

“…This was because, after being traced in the discussion using the abstracts and full texts, the articles did not discuss DI as a major topic in the discussion. Instead, the emphasis was more on other topics, such as state policies for teacher learning in the classroom (Valli & Buese, 2007), the results of parental evaluations of teacher competence (Letzel et al, 2022), students' understanding of concepts related to the material (and other articles were not yet mentioned. The corresponding articles were exported as *Ris, *Csv and *Bibtex.…”

Parental gambling frequency and adolescent gambling: A cross-sectional path model involving adolescents and parents

“…Following these premises, this cross-sectional study was aimed at investigating the role of parental gambling behavior, intended as the frequency of gambling in the last year, and measured with a self-report scale compiled by parents themselves. In particular, we asked responses from at least one parent, either the father or mother, in line with some past studies involving parents and their offspring [e.g., 33 , 34 ]. We aimed at analyzing the relationships between some individual factors and parental gambling frequency with adolescent gambling problem severity, by hypothesizing an integrated path model.…”