This post reviews Mary K. Saunders, “Previously Homeschooled College Freshmen: Their First Year Experiences and Persistence Rates” in Journal of College Student Retention 11, no. 1 (2009-2010): 77-100.
Saunders here uses results from a survey of 261 college freshmen at Wheaton College to argue that first year students who previously homeschooled tend to report positive social [...]
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New Ray/HSLDA Study on Homeschooler Achievement
Posted in Politics of homeschooling, Quantitative data, research methodology, tagged Brian D. Ray, Brian Ray, California Achievement Test, Home School Legal Defense Association, Homeschooling Across America: Academic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics, HSLDA, Iowa Test of Basic Skills, National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), NHERI, Stanford Achievement Test on September 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This post briefly reviews preliminary releases of the new study conducted by Brian Ray for HSLDA called “Homeschooling Across America: Academic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics.” The full study is scheduled for release in November 2009.
While the full report has not yet been published, HSLDA has already posted a press release describing its scope and celebrating [...]
Cavanaugh reviews the literature on Cyber Charter Effectiveness
Posted in Quantitative data, public school and homeschool partnerships, research methodology, tagged Cathy Cavanaugh, cybercharters, Tech Trends on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post briefly reviews Cathy Cavanaugh, “Effectiveness of Cyber Charters: A Review of Research on Learnings” in Tech Trends 53, no. 4 (July/August 2009): 28-31 [available fulltext here]
In another article taken from the special issue of Tech Trends devoted to cyber schools, Cavanaugh, Associate Professor of educational technology at the University of Florida at Gainesville, [...]
The Full 2007 NCES Data!
Posted in Parental motivation, Quantitative data, tagged National Center for Education Statistics, National Household Education Survey, NCES on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of months ago I noted with great excitement and not a little perplexity the release of new NCES data on homeschooling numbers. Well, now NCES has released its 2009 “Condition of Education” report, and chapter 6 gives us the full NCES data on homeschooling. Read it here. A few of the highlights:
At Last! All State Homeschool Data in One Place!
Posted in Quantitative data, tagged National Center for Education Statistics, NCES, State data on homeschooling on April 28, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Several months ago, just prior to the new NCES data that was released, I posted enrollment data from six states that suggested a levelling off of homeschool growth.
Then, only a few weeks later, NCES came out with data that suggested continued dramatic growth in homeschooling!
Now, finally, I’ve got all of the available state data in [...]
Park on Home Literacy Environments
Posted in International Homeschooling, Quantitative data, tagged Comparative Education, home environment, Hyunjoon Park, International Education, literacy, PIRLS, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post briefly reviews Hyunjoon Park, “Home Literacy Environments and Children’s Reading Performance: A Comparative Study of 25 Countries” in Educational Research and Evaluation 14, no. 6 (Winter 2008): 489-505
Park, a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, here gives the results of an ambitious study of 25 countries aiming to determine the degree [...]
Perry on Homeschooler Nutrition
Posted in Quantitative data, tagged Homeschooling in Kentucky, Kentucky, nutrition, Stepen D. Perry on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This post briefly reviews Stephen D. Perry, “Comparison of Nutritional Intake of Home School Children and Public School Children: A Comparison Study” (M.S. Thesis, 2008) [available fulltext here]
Perry, a lecturer in Food Science at the University of Kentucky, argues that there is a real difference in food consumption between homeschooled students and those who attend [...]
Uecker on Homeschooling and Religious Commitment
Posted in Family life, Quantitative data, Sociology, tagged Christian Smith, Jeremy E. Uecker, Catholic schooling, private schooling, Protestant schooling, National Survey of Youth and Religion, NSYR, Soul Searching, Peter Berger, sacred canopy, sacred umbrella, Melinda Lundquist Denton on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Jeremy E. Uecker, “Alternative Schooling Strategies and the Religious Lives of American Adolescents” in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47, no. 4 (December 2008): 563-584 [Abstract available here].
Uecker, a Ph.D. candidate at the U of Texas at Austin and author of many interesting articles on young adult religion and sexuality, [...]
Breaking News! New NCES Homeschool Data!
Posted in Parental motivation, Quantitative data, tagged John Holt, National Center for Education Statistics, NCES on December 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Just in time for Christmas, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has finally released its latest figures on homeschooling - the gift at the top of any homeschool researcher’s list! This is a big deal. If you’ve read much homeschooling literature you’ve seen NCES’ 2003 data used over and over, because it’s the best we’ve got for [...]
Homeschooling Enrollment Data Trends
Posted in Quantitative data, tagged Connecticut, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, State data on homeschooling, Vermont, Wisconsin on December 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
This post will eventually put together data on number of homeschooling children from every State that has it, providing links to the sources. The figures here given no doubt underreport the number of children being homeschooled, but even so they provide a good measure of enrollment trends over time. In the future I will repost this until it [...]
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