PARENTS AND SCHOOL-PSYCHOLOGISTS PERSPECTIVES ON PARENT INVOLVEMENT ACTIVITIES

The purpose of this study was to describe parents' and school psycholo gists' perspectives on 33 parent involvement activities aimed at enhan cing school success of students. A national sample of 217 parents rate d the degree to which they believed schools should offer and the degre e to which they would use the activities. School psychologists rated t he extent to which the activities would be feasible to implement in th eir schools during the next 5 years. The activity, ''Provide informati on on how schools function,'' received the highest rating by both pare nts and school psychologists. The activity rated the lowest by both pa rents and school psychologists was ''Make home visits to teach parents activities they can do at home to promote student learning or to answ er parents' questions about their children's schoolwork.'' Although pa rents' mean ratings for use were higher than school psychologists' mea n ratings of feasibility of implementation on 94% of the activities, t here was a high degree of similarity in the rank order of the activiti es across parents and school psychologists. School psychologists are c hallenged to develop, implement, and evaluate parent involvement progr ams to enhance students' success in school.