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The Impact of Family Involvement on Head Start Children's School Readiness

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The purpose of this project is to better understand the effects of parental involvement and parental self-efficacy on Head Start children's approaches to learning and school readiness. The first goal is to develop a specific questionnaire that measures parents' involvement and their self-efficacy in enhancing their children's approaches to learning and other school readiness domains. This measure of parent's self-efficacy will capture global competencies, in addition to specific competencies relating to approaches to learning and children's school readiness. The second goal is to determine the impact of parental self-efficacy on parents' involvement. The third goal is to test a path model which will focus on parental involvement and self-efficacy and how each component relates to children's outcomes of school readiness, and specifically approaches to learning and broad school readiness areas. This project will use the partnership model, which gives a "voice" to participating Head Start centers and parents and enables them to be active leaders as opposed to passive participant in the project. In addition to data gathered from parents, we will also collect data on children through a multi-method and multi-informant approach, including direct assessments of children and teacher reports of children's behaviors.
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Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
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