Parent Engagement Interventions Are Not Costless: Opportunity Cost and Crowd out of Parental Investment

Autor/inn/en	Robinson, Carly D.; Chande, Raj; Burgess, Simon; Rogers, Todd
Titel	Parent Engagement Interventions Are Not Costless: Opportunity Cost and Crowd out of Parental Investment
Quelle	In: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 44 (2022) 1, S.170-177 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Robinson, Carly D.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3737
DOI	10.3102/01623737211030492
Schlagwörter	Parent Student Relationship; Parents; Intervention; Middle School Students; High School Students; Synchronous Communication; Telecommunications; Secondary School Science; Foreign Countries; Program Costs; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Eltern; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Telekommunikationstechnik; Ausland
Abstract	Many educational interventions encourage parents to engage in their child's education as if parental time and attention is limitless. Sadly, though, it is not. Successfully encouraging certain parental investments may crowd out other productive behaviors. A randomized field experiment (N = 2,212) assessed the impact of an intervention in which parents of middle and high school students received multiple text messages per week encouraging them to ask their children specific questions tied to their science curriculum. The intervention increased parent-child at-home conversations about science but did not detectably impact science test scores. However, the intervention decreased parent engagement in other, potentially productive, parent behaviors. These findings illustrate that parent engagement interventions are not costless: There are opportunity costs to shifting parental effort. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01