Literature Review Matrix

Running head: LITERATURE REVIEW MATRIX

January 27, 2014

Fundamentals of Educational Research LITERATURE REVIEW MATRIX 2

Literature Review Matrix

Does effective communication between the teacher and the parent increase parent

involvement.

A literature review using the Google search engine.

TITLE OF ARTICLE AUTHOR TYPE OF DAT SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE ARTICLE E POS TED

Parent, family, National Policy 2008 The article is a policy brief of the community Educational document National Educational Association. It involvement in Association gives a summary of research that education supports the notion that greater http://www.nea.org/as parental involvement equates to sets/docs/PB11_Paren better performance in school for tInvolvement08.pdf children. The article gives a framework for parental participation in school and gives some of the hindrances to participation.

Building parent- American Official April The article is about the importance teacher partnerships Federation Federation 2011 of communication in building https://www.aft.org/p of Teachers guideline parent-teacher relationships. It gives dfs/tools4teachers/ST the benefits of effective _Partnerships0411.pd communication to the different f educational stakeholders. It also proposes strategies to be employed for effective communication.

The effect of teacher- Matthew A. Journal Octo The article is about a study family Kraft and article ber conducted to find the relationship communication on Shaun M. 2012 between teacher-parent student engagement: Dougherty. communication and student evidence from a engagement. The study finds that randomized field there is a significant positive effect experiment on student engagement and http://scholar.harvard. completion of homework, student LITERATURE REVIEW MATRIX 3 edu/files/mkraft/files/ behavior and classroom kraft__dougherty_tea participation. cher_communication_ jree.pdf

Supporting parent, Deborah June The article is a summary of family, community David 2000 literature on parental and involvement in your community involvement in schools. school It gives types of partnerships http://www.google.co between schools, families and m/url? communities. It also gives strategies sa=t&rct=j&q=does for positive parenting and enhancing %20effective communication with families. The %20%20communicati article also discusses strategies for on%20%20between increasing volunteerism and %20%20teacher attendance at school events, learning %20%20and at home, increasing the number of %20%20parent parents in leadership and decision %20%20increase making roles, and community %20%20parent collaboration. %20%20involvement. &source=web&cd=3 &ved=0CEcQFjAC& url=http%3A%2F %2Fwww.pacer.org %2Fmpc%2Fpdf %2Ftitleipip %2FSupportinginvolv ement_article.pdf&ei =DUHiUsuYI- Sk4gS654GwCw&us g=AFQjCNFbPYhp9 Tj55uJwsMcAJesEX 5ckqg&bvm=bv.5993 0103,d.bGE

Parental involvement Eileen Magazine Vol. The article gives five strategies that in our schools. Rygus article 90 can be used to improve Practical ways for 2009 communication between parents and LITERATURE REVIEW MATRIX 4 principals to -10 schools. It also suggests ways encourage parental through which principals can involvement. increase communication between http://www.teachers.a home and the school. b.ca/Publications/AT A %20Magazine/Volum e%2090/Number %201/Articles/Pages/ ParentalInvolvementi nourSchools.aspx

A literature review using the ERIC database. TITLE OF ARTICLE AUTHO TYPE DAT SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE R OF E LITERATURE REVIEW MATRIX ARTIC POS 5 LE TED

Parent-School Jacquely Journal 1993 Discusses ways teachers could work Involvement during the nne S. article more effectively with parents to early adolescent years Eccles & facilitate healthy early adolescent http://www.tcrecord.org/ Rena D. development. After examining the content.asp? Harold importance of greater parental contentid=169 involvement in children's education, the article describes barriers to parent involvement and summarizes specific ways teachers could try to involve parents who have adolescent children.

School programs and Joyce Journal 1991 The article is on a study which teacher practices of Epstein article examines the relationship between parent involvement in and school programs, parental inner-city elementary Susan involvement, teachers' attitudes and and middle schools Dauber the practices used by teachers to http://www.jstor.org/disc involve parents of their students. The over/10.2307/1001715? study examines the different levels of uid=2&uid=4&sid=2110 parental involvement supported by 3291466371 teachers. The study validates Epstein's typology and suggests the way through which parental involvement can be improved.

Why Do Parents Become Hoover‐ Journal Nove The article is a review on the recent Involved? Research Dempsey article mber work that tries to answer the question: Findings and , 2005 Why do parents become involved in Implications Walker, children's education? The article also http://www.jstor.org/stab Sandler, suggests school and family practices le/3654866? Whetsel, that can strengthen the incidence as seq=1&show_all_author Green, well as the effectiveness of parental s_jstor=true Wilkins, involvement in the school community. Closson &

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Why Do Parents Become Kathleen Journal 1995 The article is a review of Involved in Their V. article psychological theory and research that Children’s Education? Hoover- is necessary for understanding the http://rer.sagepub.com/c Dempsey reason(s) for parental involvement in ontent/67/1/3.short their children's education. The article Howard reviews the three major constructs M. believed to be central to a parent's Sandler LITERATURE REVIEW MATRIX 6

The two articles I have chosen are:

Why do parents become involved in their children's education? by Hoover-Dempsey and

Sandler.

The effect of teacher-family communication on student engagement: evidence from a randomized field experiment by Kraft and Dougherty.

Both the articles are pieces of scholarly work and have been written after extensive research and literature review. Therefore, the information contained in them is likely to be accurate. Both the articles are independent pieces of research. Author bias is hence reduced since there are no special interests behind the research.

The articles have been published in peer reviewed journals. Therefore, experts have had the opportunity to verify the information they present. This makes the information more reliable than information obtained from blogs or from special interest websites.

What I have found interesting is that there is a wealth of information on the action research proposal. One of the modifications I shall consider making is to narrow my area of research and concentrate on parental involvement at a specific level in the schooling system rather than looking at parental involvement in totality.