Haute Ecole pédagogique Fribourg

The need to distinguish between quantity and quality in research on parental involvement : The example of parental help with homework

Moroni, Sandra ; Dumont, Hanna ; Trautwein, Ulrich ; Niggli, Alois ; Baeriswyl, Franz

In: Journal of Educational Research, 2015, vol. 108, no. 5, p. 417-431

Parental involvement research has greatly expanded over the past decade, but findings are mixed, reflecting in part the conceptual and methodological limitations of many studies. On the basis of longitudinal questionnaire data from 1,685 sixth-grade students, the authors studied parental help with homework because it is the most common and most controversial type of parental involvement....