COGS Conference October 2007. The impact of parental involvement on pupil achievement Professor Charles Desforges OBE Implications for school governance.

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COGS Conference October 2007

The impact of parental involvement on pupil achievement Professor Charles Desforges OBE Implications for school governance

Implications for governance knowledge understanding vision strategic planning (and MER)

School achievement skills esp: literacy attitudes esp: responsibility persistence values esp: citizenship learning

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Factors shaping educational outcomes  child’s characteristics  family characteristics  parental involvement  school quality  community  peer group  family support services

Power over learning outcomes

Effects of parents/effect of schools achievement parents / school effects age / 0.05 age / 0.21 age / 0.51 from Sacker et al (2002)

Good parenting  authoritative not authoritarian  conversation/discussion  at home  confers respect values attitudes  effect size 0.4 / 0.5 sd

Barriers to parental involvement  extreme poverty and social chaos  substance abuse  depression  the difficult child  lack of confidence or knowledge  alternative values  barriers set up by schools

Implications for governance s trategy for parent support  analysis  vision  personalisation  resourcing  partnerships  MER

Scoping the territory parents as co-educators : in/around school : at home parents as students : family learning : CfL : specific initiatives (e.g. PPP) schools/community re-generation extended service schools

Parenting support: parent training programmes work best when they have : clear learning objectives : explicit means/ends links : tight management : community collaboration

The extended school learningsocialhealth pupil family community

Multi agency provision works when there is: - focus on achievement - a named coordinator - explicit evaluation systems - feedback loops closed - enduring funding - continuous CPD

References BECTA at Cummings, C. et at (2005) Evaluation of the full service extended schools project. London. DfES Research Report 680 (free download) Desforges, D., and Abouchaar, A. (2003) The impact of parental involvement on pupil achievement DfES Research Report 433 DfES (2005) The shape of things to come: personalised learning through collaboration. Download from ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme. Hallam et al (2004) Improving children’s behaviour and attendance through the use of parenting programmes DfES Research Report 585 Conts/….

References References Higgins, S. et al (2005) A meta-analysis of the impact of the implementation of thinking skills approaches on pupils. Downloadable from Moran,P., and Ghate, D. (2004) What works in parenting support DfES Research Report 574 New South Wales Department of Education and Training (TALE project) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (2007) Independent Study into School Leadership, London; DfES, Research Report 818 Valentine, G. (et al) (2005) Children and young people’s home use of ICT for educational purposes. The impact of attainment at KS London. DfES. Research Report 672 (free download from the DfES research section) (see also Research Report 680 and Research Report 681 for recent evaluations of extended schools)

Charles Desforges