Evaluation
March 05, 2008
Evidence points to the benefits of implementing PPP
"When schools work together with families to support learning,
children tend to succeed not just in school, but throughout
life"
Anne T. Henderson and Nancy
Berla,
The Family Is Critical to Student Achievement
The Family Is Critical to Student Achievement
Parent participation grows!
- An elementary school anticipated a first year attendance of 50 parents; but the average attendance for each of its PPP events was 215!
- Another elementary school reported that 80% of parents participating in PPP had not participated in school on a regular basis the previous year, before initiating PPP.
- One school experienced a 63% increase in the number of volunteers, PTA committee members and officers after a year of PPP!
Impact on children is documented!
- With PPP, a school showed a three-year decline in out of school suspensions, as students whose parents participated in three or more PPP activities were less likely to be suspended. They saw 21% fewer students suspended when compared to the previous year.
- During the 1999-2000 school year, a district concentrated on PPP Home Visit Training for staff in three of their elementary buildings. Those three buildings documented improved attendance; the district's other elementary sites, without PPP, did not.
- During the 1999-2000 school year, an urban district showed increased attendance and better academic performance from students whose parents attended PPP family nights.
- A high school reported a 9% decrease in discipline suspensions in 1999-2000, after instituting PPP!
Academic
performance improves!
A targeted group of children increased their school attendance by
2% when 60% of their parents became involved in their children's
education after PPP was initiated. The children of the
participating parents increased their state test scores in both
reading and math by 11%!
Practical Parenting Partnerships will help you achieve your
goals for a safer and higher performing school.
STATEWIDE SURVEY OF PARENT INVOLVEMENT IN MISSOURI SCHOOLS
Research and Training Associates, Inc., Overland Park, KS,
conducted a study of parental involvement in public elementary
schools during the 1998-99 school year. Schools that participated
in some way in PPP differed significantly from schools that did not
participate. Following are a few of the results.
PPP schools are significantly more likely to:
- Obtain parent input in designing parent/family involvement activities.
- Provide workshops more frequently.
- Provide parent discussion groups with the greatest frequency-almost twice the rate of other schools.
- Be rated by survey respondents significantly higher on the quality of home-school communication.
Be rated
significantly higher by parents on the quality of professional
development to support work with families and the quality of
school-community partnerships.
For other evaluation information, contact us. Evaluation
studies of PPP have been ongoing, with reports from 1991993-94,
1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1998-99. Special study on parent
involvement and achievement in 1999-2000.
