Uit het onderzoek komt naar voren dat ouders van verschillende schooltypen verschillende wensen en ervaringen hebben ten aanzien van ondersteuning van school bij het thuisleren. Hieronder staan resultaten uit het vragenlijstonderzoek onder 306 ouders met betrekking tot ondersteuning bij thuisleren (lees hier het volledige artikel).
Learning at home
Table 4 shows that almost all parents indicated that they help their child with its homework (97%). However, when it comes to school support for home-based learning activities, there are differences between school types. Only just over 50% of the mainstream and at-risk school parents believe that the school is aware of what parents can and are willing to do at home, as opposed to 70% of the special education school parents. Only 55% of the mainstream school parents are satisfied about school support for home learning activities, as opposed to 75% of the at-risk school parents and 69% of the special education parents. Additionally, 71%, 82% and 78% of the parents from mainstream, at-risk and special education schools, respectively, indicate that they do get suggestions for home learning activities. From the parents of the special education schools in are study 89% answered yes to the question, whether school gives the children small projects and practice booklets to take home, as opposed to 83% for both other types of parents.
Table 4 – Descriptive statistics questionnaire items on learning at home
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|
at-risk schools |
mainstream primary schools |
Special education schools |
Sign dif betw at-risk and mainstream
|
Sign dif betw at-risk and special education |
Sign dif betw mainstream and special education |
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|
N |
Mean |
st.dev |
n |
Mean |
st.dev |
N |
Mean |
st.dev |
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|
Do you help child at home practice for school? |
110 |
0.98 |
0.13 |
120 |
0.96 |
0.20 |
81 |
0.99 |
0.11 |
No |
No |
No |
|
Does school know about what you can and want to do at home? |
110 |
0.53 |
0.50 |
117 |
0.54 |
0.50 |
80 |
0.79 |
0.41 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Is teacher support for parents sufficient? |
93 |
0.75 |
0.43 |
125 |
0.55 |
0.50 |
83 |
0.69 |
0.47 |
No |
No |
No |
|
Do you get suggestions from teacher for home learning activities? |
106 |
0.82 |
0.39 |
120 |
0.71 |
0.46 |
79 |
0.78 |
0.41 |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
|
Does your child get small projects and booklets to take home? |
109 |
0.83 |
0.38 |
123 |
0.83 |
0.38 |
80 |
0.89 |
0.32 |
No |
No |
No |
|
Does the school expect you to help your child at home? |
109 |
0.86 |
0.35 |
117 |
0.79 |
0.41 |
80 |
0.89 |
0.32 |
No |
No |
No |
- Significant differences from multinomial logit regression at the 5%-level. All variables considered at the same time in one regression.
The right hand part of Table 4 shows the significant differences between the variables. Here we see that special education parents feel that the school knows what the can and cannot do at home significantly more, compared with both other types of parents. On the other hand, at-risk parents get significantly more often suggestions for home learning activities, again compared with both other groups.