Home curriculum and educational learning: interaction versus status

Abstract

Four experimental research studies on the influence of the family in school learning, are presented here. Families were experimentally treated by means of 6 alterable variables: academic guidance, academic press, languague models, home routines, domestic works in the family, and intellectuality at home. These 6 variables have created. The Curriculum of the home treatment, which emphasizes family interactions over status to determine high quality learnings and high educational equalities. Random samples consulted students and their families at public, coeducational type D schools, and subsidied private schools f the city of Valparaíso, Chile, 1988-1996. Contents and educational levels were those officially created by Chilean MINEDUC (Ministry of Education): 1rst to 4th grade levels in Spanish, Reading, Mathematics. Factorial ANOVAs were computed, with F tests ranging from F=4,05 (p less than 0,05) to F=473,62 (p less than 0,001). In addition to the former, Glass deltas effects sizes ranged from 0,27 standard deviations to 1,077 standard deviations (Median=0,741) over control groups. Thus, school+family partnerships made our children obtain high quality learnings and high educational equalities.