Comparative International Perspectives on Parental Engagement

Session Type: WERA Symposium

Abstract

The symposium brings together researchers, from Spain and the United States, which question and examine parental participation from different perspectives, including macro and micro levels, and within diverse countries and local contexts. It includes a paper, which comprises a quantitative synthesis of research on parental involvement (PI) and academic achievement through a meta-analysis of 37 studies carried out between 2000 and 2013. A study based on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA 2012) in nine countries, which considers PI and mathematical achievement, and a paper on the spatialization -conceptualization of space- of parental engagement with a particular focus on ecologies and contexts of reception, policies, and the adaptation to the United States of children in immigrant families.

Sub Unit

• World Education Research Association

Chair

• Sultan Kilinc, Arizona State University

Papers

• Parental Involvement and Student Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis - Maria Castro Morera, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

• What PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) 2012 Reveals About Parental Involvement and Mathematical Achievement - Luis Lizasoain; Eva Expósito Casas, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia; Enrique Navarro-Asencio, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

• Spatializing Parental Engagement - Angela E. Arzubiaga, Arizona State University

Discussant

• Kathy Nakagawa, Arizona State University