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Family Engagement Efficacy Beliefs of Educators: Validating the Interpretation and Use of a New Measure

Bachman, Hadley Frances
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-7252
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1679610038587067

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2023, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Educational Studies.
The publication of the Family Engagement Core Competencies by the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement in 2022 provided a body of knowledge of the work of educators engaging with families, a domain not well-understood previously. Situated in the pandemic recovery phase in U.S. education, this dissertation study aimed to explore the nature of efficacy beliefs of educators in family engagement, a latent construct grounded in social cognitive theory. To achieve this aim, a survey measure was developed, and an interpretation and use argument (IUA) anchored the process of the validation of the interpretation and use of its scores. The study was conducted in five phases. In the first phase, the Family Engagement Efficacy Beliefs of Educators (FEEB-E) survey was drafted based on a review of literature, existing instruments, and subject-matter expert and user feedback. In the second phase, the FEEB-E was piloted with a national sample of educators, and exploratory factor, parallel, and reliability analyses were conducted. In the third phase, the FEEB-E was revised based on findings from the pilot study. In the fourth phase, the FEEB-E was administered to a sample of teachers in two Ohio urban school districts, and confirmatory factor, correlation, and reliability analyses were conducted. In the fifth phase, the IUA was constructed, and the appropriateness of the interpretation and use of the scores from the FEEB-E was determined. The study found that survey items were valid for interpretation as representative of their target domain of self-efficacy beliefs for family engagement. There were no extraneous sources of variability in wording of items and directions, order of items, or the scoring scale. The survey items measured the intended population by reflecting a range of efficacy beliefs around multiple dimensions of family engagement and did so reliably (α = .917). Further, the FEEB-E was found to be valid for use as a research instrument. Its benefits outweigh the potential consequences of its use, it is cost effective, and it improves upon other available surveys for measuring efficacy beliefs for family engagement. Finally, in addition to the main study, it was examined how family engagement efficacy beliefs of educators (as measured by the FEEB-E) relate to other constructs, such as educators’ trust in families and general teaching efficacy beliefs. Family engagement efficacy beliefs were significantly positively correlated with general teaching efficacy beliefs (ρ = .576, p < .001), indicating both that the constructs are related as expected and also that they are two distinct constructs. Second, family engagement efficacy beliefs were significantly positively correlated with teachers’ trust in families (ρ = .322, p < .001), again indicating the constructs are related yet distinct.
Karen Stansberry Beard (Advisor)
Minjung Kim (Committee Member)
Roger Goddard (Committee Member)
Barbara Boone (Committee Member)
201 p.
Educational Psychology; Families and Family Life; Teaching
family engagement; parent engagement; parent involvement; efficacy; teachers; educators; trust; social-cognitive theory; human agency; positive psychology; validation; instrument development

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  • Bachman, H. F. (2023). Family Engagement Efficacy Beliefs of Educators: Validating the Interpretation and Use of a New Measure [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1679610038587067

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bachman, Hadley. Family Engagement Efficacy Beliefs of Educators: Validating the Interpretation and Use of a New Measure. 2023. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1679610038587067.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bachman, Hadley. "Family Engagement Efficacy Beliefs of Educators: Validating the Interpretation and Use of a New Measure." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1679610038587067

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