Monday, February 27, 2012


"The study considered the many approaches that homeschoolers take to education—and found hardly any difference, less than .5% of variance, in achievement based on the following variables: 

•Degree of structure (ranging from very unstructured approaches such as delight directed learning or eclectic teaching approaches to very structured, preplanned, and prescribed approaches)
•Amount of time spent per day in parent directed learning activities"

2 comments:

  1. I believe that.

    In studies of school kids vs. homeschool kid achievement scores, when they match the kids for social factors, their achievement is roughly the same, income being the most important predictor.

    Higher and higher incomes don't mean higher and higher performance, but there is a line, so many times the poverty level, I can't remember now exactly.

    And then homeschoolers tend to have two committed and involved parents, one primarily at home, though not necessarily exclusively, and so do high achieving students at school.

    But there are so many abstract benefits I've seen with homeschool, things I didn't expect, that I don't believe academic performance tells the whole story.

    Okay, good night. love, Val

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  2. Val, if you happen to remember where you saw those studies, I'd love to read them. xoxo

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