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Steven B. Sheldon

Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Verified email at jhu.edu
Cited by 14470

[BOOK][B] School, family, and community partnerships: Your handbook for action

JL Epstein, MG Sanders, SB Sheldon, BS Simon… - 2018 - books.google.com
Strengthen family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student
success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for …

Linking school–family–community partnerships in urban elementary schools to student achievement on state tests

SB Sheldon - The urban review, 2003 - Springer
This study examines the relationship between the quality of school, family, and community
partnership programs and student performance on state-mandated achievement tests. Data …

Testing a structural equation model of partnership program implementation and parent involvement

SB Sheldon - The Elementary School Journal, 2005 - journals.uchicago.edu
Structural equation modeling was used to test a model of the relations between the implementation
and results of programs of school, family, and community partnerships in elementary …

Present and accounted for: Improving student attendance through family and community involvement

JL Epstein, SB Sheldon - The Journal of Educational Research, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Reducing student absenteeism and truancy is a goal of many schools across the country.
Surprisingly little research focuses on what schools can do to increase and sustain students' …

Involvement counts: Family and community partnerships and mathematics achievement

SB Sheldon, JL Epstein - The Journal of Educational Research, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
National and international studies have made student performance in mathematics a high
priority in schools. Using longitudinal data from elementary and secondary schools, the …

Parents' social networks and beliefs as predictors of parent involvement

SB Sheldon - The elementary school journal, 2002 - journals.uchicago.edu
Research on parent involvement has tended to characterize parents as relatively isolated
individuals who interact with their child and their child's teacher. This study acknowledged that …

Improving student behavior and school discipline with family and community involvement

SB Sheldon, JL Epstein - Education and urban society, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
This study reports the results of efforts of school officials to implement family and community
involvement activities to reduce the number of disciplinary actions and to ensure a school …

School and home connections and children's kindergarten achievement gains: The mediating role of family involvement

C Galindo, SB Sheldon - Early childhood research quarterly, 2012 - Elsevier
Children's home and school are the most influential contexts in which learning and
development occur, especially during early childhood. This paper builds on Bronfenbrenner's …

Improving student attendance with school, family, and community partnerships

SB Sheldon - The Journal of Educational Research, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Researchers and policy makers have questioned the efficacy of family-involvement interventions.
They believe that more studies are needed to compare outcomes of students whose …

[PDF][PDF] Moving forward: Ideas for research on school, family, and community partnerships

JL Epstein, SB Sheldon - SAGE handbook for research …, 2006 - ohiofamiliesengage.osu.edu
7. Methods of research on school, family, and community partnerships must continue to
improve. This includes longitudinal data that accounts for schools and students’“starting points,” …