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Direct linkFryer, Roland, Jr. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
This paper describes an experiment designed to investigate the impact of aligning student, parent, and teacher incentives on student achievement. On outcomes for which incentives were provided, there were large treatment effects. Students in treatment schools mastered more than one standard deviation more math objectives than control students, and…
Descriptors: Incentives, Parent Teacher Conferences, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement
Harvard Family Research Project, 2010
A growing body of evidence suggests that family engagement matters for student success. Research shows that family engagement improves school readiness, student achievement, and social skills. Furthermore, an increasing number of innovative approaches to education leverage and connect the many settings and times in which children learn and grow to…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Parent Teacher Conferences, Academic Achievement, Parents
Peer reviewedBlack, Kathryn Norcross – Contemporary Education, 1979
Suggestions are offered to teachers for strengthening the value of parent conferences. (MM)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Parent School Relationship, Parent Teacher Conferences, Parents
Carberry, Hugh H. – Today's Education, 1975
Parents who present communication problems and ways teachers might work with them are described.
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Parent School Relationship, Parent Teacher Conferences, Parent Teacher Cooperation
Demsch, Berthold – Journal of the International Association of Pupil Personnel Workers, 1972
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Parent School Relationship, Parent Teacher Conferences
Smith, Cecilia Joyce – Schools in the Middle, 1997
Provides guidelines for educators to prepare for potentially difficult parent conferences and to conduct them to a successful conclusion. Suggestions include anticipating concerns, accentuating the positive, listening to parents, being truthful, being firm, being polite, offering solutions and assistance, asking for suggestions, admitting…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Elementary Education, Interpersonal Communication, Middle School Students
