Transcript Ways to Assess Family Engagement Outcomes…

Ways to Assess Family
Engagement Outcomes
Wendy Allen [email protected]
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Goal: Assess Family Engagement Outcomes
Objectives:
• Gain knowledge on the types of tools to assess family
engagement
• Gain skills on the process to assess family engagement
In order to assess it, one must define it…
Define Family Engagement:
Family Engagement is the interaction between
schools and families and the degree to which
families are engaged in the educational lives of
their children.
Steve Constantino, 2003
Use the Chat Pod to answer:
What are some positive
benefits/outcomes you observed
as a result of engaging families
in your school and/or district?
Research on Family Engagement
• Parent involvement in education helps produce increase in
student attendance, decreases in the drop-out rate,
positive parent-child communication, improvement of
student attitude and behavior, and more parentcommunity support for the schools.
Rich (1985) & Sattes (1985)
• Benefits of family involvement for students: higher grades
and test scores, better attendance, more positive attitudes
and behavior, higher graduations rates, and greater
enrollment in postsecondary education.
Henderson and Berla (1995)
Research on Family Engagement
• Henderson and Mapp (2002) found that
regardless of the income or background,
student whose families were engaged with
school were more likely to earn higher
grades and enroll in higher-level
programs, stay in school, and enroll in
postsecondary education.
Family
Engagement is
linked to student
achievement!!!
What outcome(s) do you want to
achieve from your family event?
• General Information – graduation
requirement, orientation, etc.
• Relationship Building – Toy Bingo,
Fair, school play, etc.
• Link to Learning – Math night,
Reading night, etc.
Create Measureable Objectives…
• Defining measurable objectives
–Important to increase families
understanding of how to support
learning at home as well as the ultimate
goal of increased student achievement.
• At the end of the workshop, we want
families to…….
Let’s Take a Poll…
Status of Family Engagement Activities
Parent
Coordinators
Parent
Volunteering
Parent training
events
Regular, personalized
communication
Fundraisers
Student
performances
Back to school night
Potlucks
Parent social
services
Parent-teacher
conferences
Positive phone calls
Home visits
Parent resource
Room
Generic school
newsletters
Interactive homework, tips,
and tools for home learning
Classroom
observations
or mini-lessons
Weekly data
sharing folders
**This is a great activity for a faculty to engage in and discuss
What are ways to assess
family engagement?
• Interviews
• Focus Groups
• Surveys
*Consider face to face, paper/pencil,
electronic
Interviews with Families
“Ask Questions face-to-face and 1:1”
• Pros
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More personable
Read body language
Ask probing questions
-Call person with plenty of advance times
Two-way
-Tell interviewee the purpose of interview
communication
Tips to Interviews:
-Give interviewee agenda (if appropriate)
-Pick a good interviewer for task
Cons
-Make sure questions are aligned with
– Time consuming
objectives
– Scheduling issues
– Some people may
not be as open
Focus Group
“Ask questions face-to-face and group of people”
• Pros
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-Call person with plenty of advance times –
-Tell interviewee the purpose of interview –
Tips to Interviews:
More personable
Read body language
Ask probing questions
Two-way
communication
-Give interviewee agenda (if appropriate)
-Pick a good interviewer for task
-Make sure questions are aligned with• Cons
objectives
– Time consuming
– Scheduling issues
– Some people may
not be as open
Surveys
“Process of gathering information by asking questions”
• Determine…
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What questions to ask
Target audience
Process to collect information (electronic, paper copy, etc.)
How to compile and share survey results
Create surveys in native languages to match demographics
Feedback of Events/Activities
Assess
knowledge
before and
after
Be careful
with too
many openended
questions
Save participants’ time by
having basic info completed
already (Date, Time, Location)
Compile & Share Feedback
Compile & Share Feedback
Build Feedback Process into Daily Activities
At a school
conference
Visitors to
Office
Build Feedback Process into Daily Events/Activities
Build Feedback Process into IEP Meeting
Other Ways to Collect Feedback
SPP Indicator 8
“Parental
Involvement”
SPP Indicator 8
• Parental Involvement – based on a survey of
parents’ overall impression of whether schools
facilitated their involvement as a means of
improving services and results for children with
disabilities.
• Only a certain number of districts participate
each year
“Parents are the First
and Last Teachers”
Building Capacity
• When you leave today, what will you do
with this information?
• How will you share it with others in your
district?
• When will you share it? (Timeline)
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Wendy Allen [email protected]
Monica Ballay [email protected]
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