Early Childhood Education Research Guide: Family Engagement
A guide to resources for early childhood education and child development
Websites
- Parents and GuardiansFrom the National Education Association
- Back to school: How parent involvement affects student achievement (full report)From the Center for Public Education
- Parental Involvement is Key to Student SuccessFrom Public School Review
- Activities to promote parent involvementFrom Education World
- How Strong Communication Contributes to School and Student Success: Parent and Family InvolvementFrom National School Public Relations Association
- Parent UniversityFrom Baltimore County Public Schools
- Why some parents don't come to schoolPublished in Educational Leadership
- Project Appleseed"The national campaign for public school improvement"
- Family and Community Engagement Standards Rubric"Improving Schools Through High Impact Family Engagement Practices"
- Maryland Families EngageState database of educational resources
Searching
Determining the best language for searching will result in the best search results.
Search research databases with subject headings to find whole articles about your topic. Always pay attention to the subject headings in the best articles located. Search with that language.
The best subject headings for the topic of parental involvement or participation are:
- parent participation
- family involvement (ERIC only)
- family involvement is not a subject heading in the Proquest Education database--search it only as a keyword or title phrase there
- parents
- parenting
- Truncate the word parent* to find that word and all of its endings or any subject heading that includes the word
- parent school relationship (ERIC)
- parent teacher cooperation (ERIC)
- family school relationship (ERIC)
- academic achievement
- learning
- schools (secondary, elementary, public)
- teachers
- educators
Create searches using the subject phrase parent participation or parent* paired with some of the other subject headings above relating to success/achievement.
Videos
- On the Same Page: Families and Schools as PartnersA documentary produced by EPIC (Every Person Influences Children), NYS PIRC (Parental Information and Resource Center), in partnership with NYS PTA and WNED-TV
Selected, current articles from education databases
Find more articles by searching the education databases under the Find Articles tab above.
Construct searches using the suggested terms in the Searching box.