Posted in Academic Achievement, research methodology, Socialization, tagged Ama Mazama, Braden Ryan Hoelzle, Cardus Education Survey, Cheryl Fields-Smith, Family, Garvey Lundy, Homeschooling in America, Jennifer Lois, Jonathan P. Hill, Joseph Murphy, Kevin R. Den Dulk, Monica Wells Kisura, Odette N. Gould, Reanne E. Meuse, Richard Medlin, Rob Kunzman, Sandra Martin-Chang, Society, Sociological Spectrum, Vanderbilt University on September 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Record: Joseph Murphy, “The Social and Educational Outcomes of Homeschooling” in Sociological Spectrum 34, no. 3 (April 2014), 244-272. [Abstract Here]
Summary: Murphy, a professor at Vanderbilt University and author of the excellent book-length review of homeschooling scholarship Homeschooling in America, here again summarizes much of the literature on homeschooling, attending especially to studies of the outcomes of homeschooling on the children who experience it.
Posted in public school and homeschool partnerships, research methodology, Socialization, tagged Brian Ray, Calvin College, Cardus Education Survey, Christian Smith, Jeremy Uecker, Jonathan P. Hill, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Kevin R. Den Dulk, Lisa Pearce, National Study of Youth and Religion, NSYR on September 9, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Record: Jonathan P. Hill and Kevin R. Den Dulk, “Religion, Volunteering, and Educational Setting: The Effect of Youth Schooling Type on Civic Engagement” in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 52, no. 1 (2013): 179-197 [Available Here]
Summary:
Hill and Den Dulk, both professors at Calvin College, here present results drawn from the massive National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) directed by Christian Smith and Lisa Pearce. Read my summary of an excellent earlier study by Jeremy Uecker using this data set here.
In the piece before us today Hill and Den Dulk want to know whether the type of schooling a child receives goes on to have an impact on that individual’s habits of volunteering in young adulthood, and if so, why. As the NSYR was a multi-stage longitudinal study of a representative sample of the American population, it can answer this question. (more…)
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