• About
    • Login
    View Item 
    •   Institutional Repository Home
    • Electronic Theses and Dissertations
    • Electronic Theses and Dissertations
    • View Item
    •   Institutional Repository Home
    • Electronic Theses and Dissertations
    • Electronic Theses and Dissertations
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of Institutional RepositoryCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDepartmentThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDepartment

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Home-schooling as an extreme form of parental involvement

    Green, Christa Lynn
    : https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-03042005-114052
    http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10665
    : 2005-03-04

    Abstract

    Although home schooling is growing in popularity in the U.S. (Princiotta, Bielick, & Chapman, 2004), little systematic research has focused on this population. Using Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler’s (1995, 1997) model of parental involvement process and the few available studies of home-schooling parents’ beliefs (e.g. Knowles, 1988; Van Galen, 1988), I examined why parents decide to home-school. Parents of 136 home-schooled elementary children completed questionnaires assessing constructs a) derived from Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler’s model, including psychological motivation for home-schooling (role construction and sense of efficacy for helping the child learn) and life context variables pertinent to home-schooling (time and energy, skills and knowledge) and b) personal beliefs identified in the home-schooling research as important to parents’ decision to home-school (value beliefs, ideological beliefs, pedagogical beliefs, and beliefs about the child’s special needs). The results offer systematic and theoretically grounded information on parents’ motivations for home schooling.
    Show full item record

    Files in this item

    Icon
    Name:
    green.thesis.2005.pdf
    Size:
    691.6Kb
    Format:
    PDF
    View/Open

    This item appears in the following collection(s):

    • Electronic Theses and Dissertations

    Connect with Vanderbilt Libraries

    Your Vanderbilt

    • Alumni
    • Current Students
    • Faculty & Staff
    • International Students
    • Media
    • Parents & Family
    • Prospective Students
    • Researchers
    • Sports Fans
    • Visitors & Neighbors

    Support the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries

    Support the Library...Give Now

    Gifts to the Libraries support the learning and research needs of the entire Vanderbilt community. Learn more about giving to the Libraries.

    Become a Friend of the Libraries

    Quick Links

    • Hours
    • About
    • Employment
    • Staff Directory
    • Accessibility Services
    • Contact
    • Vanderbilt Home
    • Privacy Policy