1. Nuremberg seminar November 2007

2. The impact of parental involvement on pupil achievement Professor Charles Desforges OBE

3. Implications knowledge understanding vision strategic planning (and MER) research

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

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

7. Power over learning outcomes

8. Effects of parents/effect of schools achievement parents / school effects age 7 0.29 / 0.05 age 11 0.27 / 0.21 age 16 0.14 / 0.51 from Sacker et al (2002)

9. Other outcomes resilience health adjustment

10. Theories social learning attachment style

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

12. 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

13. Parenting and … poverty ethnicity

14. Implications s trategy for parent support  analysis  vision  personalisation  resourcing  partnerships  research

15. Reference www.jrf.org.uk

16. Charles Desforges c.w.desforges@exeter.ac.uk