Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA Experienced homeschool parents and home-educated students have heard certain questions, repeatedly. Both the genuinely curious and philosophically-negative critics of homeschooling have been making claims such as the following aimed at homeschooling for about 30 years now: The homeschooled will not do well in the […]
Hannah Meeks Sharick Stetson University Richard G. Medlin Psychology Department, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, rmedlin@stetson.edu Abstract The purpose of this study was to measure homeschooled children’s compliance while they worked on an academic task with their mothers. Participants were 24 homeschooled children (mean age 12.2 years) and their mothers. Maternal directives and children’s reactions to […]
Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA Keywords: Home-schooled, schooled, students, impact, academic, evidence. Multiple studies over thirty years have consistently found relatively neutral to positive things associated with homeschooling with respect to academic achievement and social, emotional, and psychological development (Ray, 2005, 2010). Some critics of both the quality of […]
Yvonne Malone Tennessee Technological University, YMalone@tntech.edu Misty J. Cecil Tennessee Technological University Abstract The authors investigated the perceptions of undergraduate college students who had been admitted to upper division classes in the teacher education program about homeschool outcomes. The purpose was to compare any belief differences about homeschooling outcomes based on gender, on the […]
Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA Attachment theory was clearly developed by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth (Bretherton, 1992) (e.g., see Bowlby, 1951). Bowlby, over a half century ago, was very clear about the importance of a mother, and father, to children’s healthy and proper development. He wrote the following: […]
Lina Valery Lake Worth, Florida, USA, becreative@me.com Abstract Online communication and resource sharing between elementary homeschool families was examined. Through Action Research 16 homeschool families participated in a web site devised for the purpose of generating greater communication between families in between homeschool events and activities. It also served to establish a platform where […]
Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA Dr. Michael Cole (2010) recently presented the world with his insightful piece, entitled “What’s culture got to do with it? Educational research as a necessarily interdisciplinary enterprise,” that holds an implicit relationship with the modern homeschool movement. For context, one should note that Cole […]
Richard G. Medlin Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, USA, rmedlin@stetson.edu Abstract The purpose of this research was to see if homeschooled children whose parents more accurately perceived their learning style preferences had higher academic achievement scores. Homeschooled children (57 boys and 57 girls) from grades 5 through 12 completed the Stanford Achievement Test and the […]
Brian D. Ray National Home Education Research Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA Keywords: Homeschooling, harms, premise. Data-based research has consistently revealed favorable things related to the modern homeschool movement for about 25 years.[1] [2] Theoretical philosophical research, on the other hand, argues conflicting things about home-educating families and students. For example, professor Robin West (2009) recently […]
Erika M. L. Jones Del Rey Church, Playa del Rey, California 90293, erika@delreychurch.com Abstract The purpose of this study is to understand academic and social attitudes among undergraduates who have been home educated as primary or secondary students and to learn from their transition to university. A comparative study of 215 undergraduates was conducted in […]
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