Student Report of Parent’s Use of
Last updated: May, 2005
This scale assesses the extent to which a student perceives that his or her
parent (or other family member identified by the student) reinforces student
behaviors, interests, and beliefs conducive to achievement during a representative
parental involvement activity, monitoring or helping the student with homework.
The scale was adapted from Martinez-Pons (1996) and reported in Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler (2005)
. It includes
items in the Parental Report of
, altered as appropriate for student perspective and
The scale employed a four-point Likert-type scale: 1 = not true, 2 = a little
true, 3 = pretty true, 4 = very true.
The scale achieved an alpha reliability of .87 when administered to a sample
of 358 public school students in grades 4-6 (Hoover-Dempsey & Sandler,
Students were asked to respond to the following prompt:
“Dear Student, Families do many different things when they help children
with school. Please think about how your family helps you with school and
fill in the circle that matches what is most true for them. Thank you!”
The person in my family who usually helps me with my homework
shows me that he or she likes it when I…
|…try to learn as much
|…have a good attitude
about doing my homework.
|…want to learn new things.
|…check my work.
|…understand how to solve
|…organize my schoolwork.
| …find new ways to do
my work when I get stuck.
|…stick with a problem
until it gets solved.
|…work hard on my homework.
|…keep working on my homework
even when I don't feel like it.
|…ask the teacher for
| …explain what I think
to the teacher.
|…explain what I think
about school to him or her.
Hoover-Dempsey, K.V., & Sandler, H.M. (2005). Final Performance
OERI Grant # R305T010673: The Social Context of Parental Involvement:
Path to Enhanced Achievement.
Presented to Project Monitor,
Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, March 22,
Martinez-Pons, M. (1996). Test of a model of parental inducement
of academic self-regulation. Journal of Experimental Education