Child Engagement Questionnaire (CEQ)
Category: Families and Communities
Parental attitudes and perspectives of student “success” will likely drive their educational choices, whether residentially assigned district public schools, alternative public schools, private schools, or homeschooling. However, little research has examined the importance of these attitudes on choice or how these attitudes may vary across parent characteristics. In this study, we conducted an experimental study of parent perspectives on student success. We use a fully randomized stated preferences experiment known as a conjoint experiment to evaluate these perspectives across five components, including standardized test scores, college matriculation, civic outcomes, academic skills, and religiosity. We find that standardized test scores, college matriculation, and civic outcomes matter most to parents, but that academic skills and religiosity also matter. In addition, we find evidence of heterogeneity in marginal means across subgroups, with older parents penalizing below average test scores, high-income parents favoring matriculation to a prestigious college or university, and politically conservative and religiously active parents favoring religiosity more so than other parents.
Keywords
School choice, public school choice, private school choice, homeschooling, randomized controlled trial
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Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/xa7s-yp70
