Preservice teachers’ reflections of their involvement in a home-school connection project in teacher education

Introducing Preservice Teachers to Family-Centered Practices: A Scoping Review

“…Of the 17 included articles, eight featured qualitative analysis only (Able et al, 2014;Amaro-Jimenez, 2016;Amatea et al, 2013;Bofferding, Hoffman, & Kastberg, 2016;Bottoms, Ciechanowski, Jones, de la Hoz, & Fonseca, 2017;McHatton et al, 2013;Murray et al, 2008;Waddell, 2013;Zeichner, Bowman, Guillen, & Napolitan, 2016); four featured quantitative analysis only (Accardo & Xin, 2017;Bingham & Abernathy, 2007;Brown et al, 2014;Jacobbe et al, 2012), and three featured a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods or described their study as mixed methods (Bergman, 2013;McCullough & Ramirez, 2012;Ramirez et al, 2016).…”

“…Program majors included elementary education, math education, bilingual education, secondary education, special education, early childhood education, dual special and elementary education, and health education. Some studies did not report on majors (Able et al, 2014;Amaro-Jimenez, 2016;Amatea et al, 2013;Bofferding et al, 2016;Brown et al, 2014;Jacobbe et al, 2012;Murray et al, 2008). The majority of participants in all studies reporting on gender were female and Caucasian, but studies also included African American PSTs (Able et al, 2014;Accardo & Xin, 2017;Amatea et al, 2013;Collier et al, 2015;Jacobbe et al, 2012;Waddell, 2013), Latino PSTs (Able et al, 2014;Accardo & Xin, 2017;Bottoms et al, 2017;Ramirez et al, 2016), Asian-American PSTs (Able et al, 2014;Amatea et al, 2013;Bottoms et al, 2017;Brown et al, 2014;Jacobbe et al, 2012); Pacific Islander PSTs (Amatea et al, 2013;Bottoms et al, 2017), biracial PSTs (Amatea et al, 2013), and those selecting "other" in this category (Brown et al, 2014;Collier et al, 2015).…”

“…Semester-long courses. PSTs in nine studies participated in several experiences conducted as part of a semester-long course (Able et al, 2014;Amaro-Jimenez, 2016;Amatea et al, 2012;Bergman, 2013;Bingham & Abernathy, 2007;Brown et al, 2014;Collier et al, 2015;Murray et al, 2008;Waddell, 2013). Four of the courses required PSTs to complete field observation hours (Able et al, 2014;Amaro-Jimenez, 2016;Bergman, 2013;Waddell, 2013), while three others hosted parents in university classrooms (Bingham & Abernathy, 2007;Collier et al, 2015;Murray et al 2008), and the remaining two studies used simulation, lectures, videos, and readings (Amatea et al, 2012;Brown et al, 2014).…”

“…Eight studies employed qualitative methodology (Able et al, 2014;Amaro-Jimenez, 2016;Bofferding et al, 2016;Bottoms et al, 2017;McHatton et al, 2013;Murray et al, 2008;Waddell, 2013;Zeichner et al, 2016). Each of these studies reported positive outcomes in the findings based on qualitative analysis.…”

“…Increased confidence. PSTs increased their confidence in interacting and working with families as a result of interventions (Amaro-Jimenez, 2016;Bofferding et al, 2016;Murray et al, 2008;Waddell, 2013). In preintervention, several PSTs expressed fear, anxiety, feeling unprepared, lacking experience, or lacking confidence in their ability to work with families.…”