Student Outcomes and Parent Teacher Home Visits

Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) is a strategy for engaging educators and families as a team to support student achievement. The PTHV model developed from an understanding that family engagement is critical to student success. 

This study addresses the following research questions : 

1 . To what extent does schools’ implementation of PTHV predict school - level outcomes? 

2 . To what extent does student and family participation in a home visit predict student attendance and proficiency on standardized tests ? 

Four large , urban , highly diverse districts from across the United State participated in this study . From each district, researchers requested student - level data about demographic characteristics (e. g.  gender, race) and student outcomes (e.g., attendance and standardized test performance). 

Additionally, districts were asked to provide data about the implementation of PTHV in their schools. Districts were asked to provide these data for all students enrolled in prekindergarten through twelfth grade in the 2015 – 16 and 2016 – 17 school years. 

This report presents findings from two separate analyses drawing on data representing over 100,0 00 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, attending hundreds of schools.

 Key Findings and Take-Aways 

 · The findings support the implementation of Parent Teacher Home Visits ( PTHV ) as an evidenced - based family engagement approach to improve student outcomes.  

· On average, schools that systematically implemented PTHV experienced decreased rates of student chronic absenteeism and increased rates of student English Language Arts ( ELA ) and math proficiency.  

· Students whose families participated in a home visit were less likely to be chronically absent than students whose families did not participate .  

· For students, attending a school that was implementing home visits with at least 10% of students’ families was associated with a decreased likelihood of being chronically absent . 

 · For students, attending a school that was implementing home visits with at least 10% of students’ families was associated with an increased likelihood of scoring at or above proficiency on standardized ELA assessments.