REASONING ABILITIES OF HOME-EDUCATED CHILDREN
Much of the literature on home education centers either on reasons why parents should choose this form of education over the conventional classroom or the resource materials available to parents of home educated children.
David Neal Quine and Edmund A. Marek, Volume 4 Number 3, September 1988
A STUDY OF HOME SCHOOLING: PARENTAL MOTIVATION AND GOALS
This project was designed to explore the motivations and goals of parents who are home schooling their children.
Sonia K. Gustafson, Volume 4 Number 2, June 1988
SUMMARY OF TWO REPORTS FROM THE WASHINGTON HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH PROJECT, 1987
Two new reports were released in March 1988 from the Washington Homeschool Research Project. The first, Report from the 1987 Washington homeschool testing, contains a detailed tabulation of the scores of 873 home schoolers on the Stanford Achievement Test. The second, The relationship of selected input variables to academic achievement among Washington's homeschoolers, is based upon a sampling of 470 and presents an analysis of test scores as a function of parent education level, degree of structure in the home schooling, number of years home schooled, and other variables.
Jon Wartes, Volume 4 Number 2, June 1988
UNDERSTANDING PARENTS WHO TEACH CHILDREN AT HOME: THE VALUE OF A LIFE HISTORY APPROACH
The objective of the study was to understand and relate the background influences of a small, select group of parents to present rationales for operating home schools.
J. Gary Knowles, Volume 4 Number 1, March 1988
THE 1987-88 OREGON HOME SCHOOL SURVEY: AN OVERVIEW OF THE…
The intent of this article is to provide an overview of the survey findings. The following sections will (1) present a profile of the home schoolers and compare them with larger populations in terms of social and economic characteristics, religious and political characteristics, and educational attitudes, and (2) discuss the commonalities and cleavages that exist within the home school population.
Maralee Mayberry, Volume 4 Number 1, March 1988
BARNEBEY’S STUDY OF UNIVERSITY ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR HOME SCHOOLED APPLICANTS, AND A FOLLOW-UP
hat are the admissions requirements, and how do they compare, of 210 selected four year public and private universities in the United States with respect to applicants who have been home schooled? Leslie F. Barnebey pursued this question in her Ed.D. dissertation ("American University Admission
Requirements for Home Schooled Applicants, in 1984•) which was completed at Brigham Young University in 1986. She also determined whether any of four characteristics (Carnegie type, size, support, or location) of the institutions affected the admission of home schooled applicants and explored the attitude of admission officers toward these applicants.
Brian D. Ray, Volume 3 Number 4, December 1987
Review of HOME SCHOOLING: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE BY MARY ANNE PITMAN
Mary Anne Pitman (1986) has written the most sweeping review of the literature on home education to date. Since most home school researchers will already be familiar with many of the works cited in the article, I will briefly summarize the content of the review to indicate the comprehensiveness and scope of
Pitman's review, and then the implications of this article for future home school research will be suggested.
Jane Van Galen, Volume 3 Number 4, December 1987
THE HOME SCHOOLING MOVEMENT IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY
The purpose of this study was to determine the philosophical purpose, the curricular activities, the methods of evaluation, and the preference for public school services of the home schoolers of Central Kentucky.
Pauletta Offutt Kutter, Volume 3 Number 4, December 1987