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Family-Faculty Trust as Measured with the Elementary School Success Profile
Children & Schools (2011)
  • Heather A. Bower, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Natasha K. Bowen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Joelle D. Powers, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abstract
The degree to which parents and teachers perceive they are working together in the best educational interests of children is a critical aspect of school culture. In previous work by Hoy, Tarter, and Woolfolk Hoy, the phenomenon was named “faculty trust” and was measured with data from teachers. The current study builds on Hoy et al.'s work by recommending that measures of faculty trust capture the important reciprocal nature of trust and cooperation between schools and families that is, theoretically, part of the original construct. Data collected from parents and teachers with the Elementary School Success Profile (ESSP) were used to test a broadened construct called family-faculty trust. Confirmatory factor analyses with Mplus indicated that items and composites on the ESSP could be used to measure a multidimensional family-faculty trust construct. Implications for how school social workers can improve this aspect of school culture when total or subscale scores are found to be low are discussed.
Keywords
  • faculty trust,
  • parent involvement,
  • parent-teacher partnerships,
  • school culture,
  • structural equation modeling
Disciplines
Publication Date
July 1, 2011
DOI
10.1093/cs/33.3.158
Citation Information
Heather A. Bower, Natasha K. Bowen and Joelle D. Powers. "Family-Faculty Trust as Measured with the Elementary School Success Profile" Children & Schools Vol. 33 Iss. 3 (2011) p. 158 - 167
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joelle_powers/6/