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Validity and reliability of the Parental Homework Management Scale
Jennifer Cunha1, Jianzhong Xu, Pedro Rosário
1Universidade do Minho.
Psicothema
|July 17, 2018
Summary
Parents can help elementary students manage homework through environment, time, motivation, and emotion. The new Parental Homework Management Scale (PHMS) shows good quality for assessing these skills.
Area of Science:
- Educational Psychology
- Family Studies
- Psychometrics
Background:
- Parental involvement in homework management is crucial for elementary students.
- Existing research highlights parental roles in environment, time, motivation, and emotion management.
- A validated scale for assessing these parental homework management dimensions was lacking.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and validate the Parental Homework Management Scale (PHMS).
- To assess the psychometric properties of the PHMS for parents of elementary school children in mathematics.
- To provide a reliable tool for measuring parental support in homework.
Main Methods:
- The study involved 2,118 parent-child dyads.
- Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted on one group.
- Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed on a second group to validate the scale.
Main Results:
- The PHMS demonstrated two factors: environment-time and motivation-emotion management.
- The scale positively correlated with homework self-regulation and positive emotions.
- A negative relationship was found between PHMS and math achievement; no link to homework quantity.
Conclusions:
- The Parental Homework Management Scale (PHMS) possesses good psychometric quality.
- The scale effectively measures key dimensions of parental homework support.
- PHMS can be a valuable tool in educational and psychological research.
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