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Achievement Mediators of Family Engagement in Children’s Education: A Family–School–Community Systems Model

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Processes and Pathways of Family-School Partnerships Across Development

Part of the book series: Research on Family-School Partnerships ((RFSP,volume 2))

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In this chapter, we propose a systems model of the primary means by which family–school–community engagement in children’s learning can promote achievement. In doing so, we integrate and extend existing theories of how family engagement in learning affects children’s achievement, highlighting the mediating roles of social capital, achievement-related attributions and motivation, and learning skills and strategies. Our aim in the chapter is twofold: (1) to help focus family–school–community engagement interventions on mediating mechanisms for which the field has, to date, generated robust empirical evidence and (2) to help focus further empirical work on testable hypotheses that clarify how, when, and why partnerships between families, schools, and communities have positive consequences for children’s achievement. In addressing these two aims, we pay special attention to the increasing diversity of families and learners in the United States, and the ways in which culture, language, and sociohistorical background are relevant for understanding how engagement in education affects children.

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Dearing, E., Sibley, E., Nguyen, H.N. (2015). Achievement Mediators of Family Engagement in Children’s Education: A Family–School–Community Systems Model. In: Sheridan, S., Moorman Kim, E. (eds) Processes and Pathways of Family-School Partnerships Across Development. Research on Family-School Partnerships, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16931-6_2

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