Family perspective on home visiting program

Authors

  • Sebahattin Ziyanak University of Houston
  • Hakan Yagci University of North Texas

Keywords:

Home visiting program, parent-teacher communications, student-teacher interactions, American educational system, the parent’s perception of the school

Abstract

This study focused on a lately constructed survey instrument that was intended to test the family perspective on a home visiting program and school. The four areas investigated were parent-teacher communications, student-teacher interactions, the parent’s perception of the school and the parents’ understanding of the home visiting program. The participants were selected from parents/guardians of 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th grade students at a Charter school in a southwestern major city in Texas, the United States of America. Twenty-two questions were asked to evaluate parent’s viewpoint with the four designated areas of interaction and communication of among school-parent-teacher. The findings showed that 73.5% of the students’ families living were in low income. The outcomes for reliability were promising (a = .909). Yet, the factor analysis outcomes of a rotated four-factor solution were insufficient to assess validity. This might be related to a small sample size (n = 45).

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Author Biographies

Sebahattin Ziyanak, University of Houston

Sebahattin Ziyanak was born in Istanbul. He received his B.S. in sociology in 1999 from the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, Turkey and his M.A. in sociology in 2007 from the University of Houston, Texas. Sebahattin Ziyanak completed his doctorate in sociology from the University of North Texas in 2013.  His major areas of interest are in the subjects of delinquency, deviance, social organization, social movement, and race and ethnicity. 

Sebahattin has taught SOCI 1520.2 Social Problems Fall/2013-2012, Soci 3240.1 Qualitative Data Collection Spring/2013, Soci 3220.1 Quantitative Data Collection Spring/2012 courses at University of North Texas, Denton, TX.

Sociology Department

Hakan Yagci, University of North Texas

Hakan Yagci was born in Hopa, Turkey, in 1974. He studied Science Education at Bosporus University in Istanbul. He moved to the United State in 2000 to earn his master degree in Applied Behavioral Studies at Oklahoma State University in 2002. He completed part of his PhD degree in Educational Psychology at OSU. He is received his PhD in Educational Research at University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA,  in 2015. 

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Published

2015-08-31

How to Cite

Ziyanak, S., & Yagci, H. (2015). Family perspective on home visiting program. Journal of Human Sciences, 12(2), 477–484. Retrieved from https://www.j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/3216

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2015)

Section

Education

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Uluslararası İnsan Bilimleri Dergisi ISSN:1303-5134
International Journal of Human Sciences ISSN:2458-9489
 
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