Parents’ engagement in the education of lower secondary school students with and without special educational needs – which strategies bring expected results?

• Authors: Szumski Grzegorz , Karwowski Maciej
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article presents an analysis of approaches to the engagement of parents in the education of lower secondary school students with and without special educational needs (SEN), as well as its effect on school achievement. The analysis of the results from almost 1500 Polish lower secondary school students, including almost 300 students assessed as SEN, showed that parents in both groups varied in their strategies to help their children. Parents of students with SEN more often directly helped their children with homework, although this strategy negatively correlated with school achievement for both groups. The results opposed a widely held claim that students with SEN require alternative types of parental support. These findings may, therefore, have a practical role for shaping parental and teacher’ beliefs about the most effective ways to improve the achievement of lower secondary school students.

Keywords

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special educational needs; parental engagement; academic achievement; lower secondary school

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Edukacyjnych
• Journal: Edukacja
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 2(2017)
• Pages: 63–77

Contributors

author

Szumski Grzegorz

• The Maria Grzegorzewska University

author

Karwowski Maciej

• The Maria Grzegorzewska University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.24131/3724.170204