School Attendance and Attainment: Poor Attenders' Perceptions of Schoolwork and Parental Involvement in Their Education

Autor/in	Sheppard, Anne
Titel	School Attendance and Attainment: Poor Attenders' Perceptions of Schoolwork and Parental Involvement in Their Education
Quelle	In: British Journal of Special Education, 36 (2009) 2, S.104-111 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-3383
Schlagwörter	Economically Disadvantaged; Parent Participation; Attendance; Parent School Relationship; Welfare Services; Student Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Measures (Individuals); Comparative Analysis; Educational Attainment; Role; Educational Legislation; Parent Responsibility; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elternmitwirkung; Anwesenheit; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Fürsorgeeinrichtung; Schülerverhalten; Ausland; Messdaten; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Rollen; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Großbritannien
Abstract	Because of established links with attainment, the UK government has, over the last ten years, developed policies to improve school attendance. Legislation now makes school attendance a parental responsibility. In the small-scale study reported in this article, Anne Sheppard, manager of an Education Welfare Service Team in North Yorkshire, collected data on 57 pupils' attitudes to school and schoolwork and their perceptions of their parents' involvement in their education. In order to examine the role of these variables in relation to school attendance, "good" and "poor" attenders of 12 to 13 years of age, matched for ability, were compared on a number of quantifiable measures regarding their perceptions of schoolwork and their parents' behaviour in relation to aspects of their schooling. Both good and poor attenders avoided class work if possible, but good attenders were more likely to do their homework and perceived their parents as more involved in their education. Anne Sheppard argues that Education Social Welfare Services need to take account of findings from parental involvement research in their practice if they are to increase both children's school attendance and attainment. (As Provided).
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