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RESEARCH THAT CONTRDICTS
Despite the validity of ample studies, considerable parent involvement research to date contains serious organizational and operational flaws. While most specialists and researchers support the school policy direction of increased parent engagement, few agree about what establishes effective parent engagement. Confusion persists regarding the activities, goals, and desired outcomes of various parent engagement programs and policies. A major source of this confusion is the lack of scientific thoroughness in the research informing practice and policy. For this reason, less is known about parent engagement than commonly is assumed. However, early studies suggesting the importance of parent engagement are treated as conclusive, regardless of the equivocal nature of the data, in use to support the position that all types of parent engagement are important. Furthermore, many programs and policies promoting parent engagement are not clearly based on the evidence that does exist. The reliance on such compromised data may lead to unrealistic expectations of what parent engagement programs and practices actually are able to accomplish (Baker, A. J. L., and Soden, L. M., 2014).
According to Baker, A. J. L., and Soden, L. M., (2014), Complexity of involvement patterns, deliberates that researchers need to take into account the complex and transactional nature of interrelationships between parent involvement and its outcomes.
For example:
1. The relationships among different types of parent involvement.
2. The relative importance of different aspects of parent involvement at different points in the life of the student.
3. The complex processes by which different types of involvement interact to mediate, moderate, or...

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...volvement in Children's Education: A critical Assessment of the Knowledge Base, prepared for the National Council of Jewish Women Center for the Child, New York, NY
Editorial Projects in Education Research Center. (2004, August 4). Issues A-Z: Parent Involvement. Education Week. Retrieved Month Day, Year Retrieved on April 30, 2014 from http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/parent-involvement/
Grant, C. A., & Potter, A. A. (2011). Models of parent-teacher/school engagement in a time of educational reform, increased diversity, and globalization. In E. M. Olivos, O. Jimenez- Castellanos, & A. M. Ochoa (Eds.), Bicultural parent engagement: Advocacy and empowerment, pp. 120-142. New York: Teachers College Press.
Parent Involvement Centre, (2012), Copyright © Last modified: November 17, 2012 Retrieved April 30, 2014, http://www.parentinvolvement.ca/recommendations.htm
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