Research Papers Relating to Home
Education |
| There are more and more papers being published concerning
home education and its benefits to children who have been home educated.
This page is currently under construction and will be added to as
and when information becomes available. |
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EO Research EO
members responded honestly and openly to the questionnaire on their
children's home education experience, that was sent out with the newsletter
in 2002, and we much appreciate their generosity in taking part. The
results of the questionnaire have not been fully analysed, but we
felt that these graphical displays of some of the raw data would be
of interest. More light could be thrown on the results, and more information
obtained from the questionnaires by, for example, making correlations
with ages of children, number in family, ways & reasons for HE,
location, etc. but this will take a great deal more work. |
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Paula Rothermel has undertaken much research on home
education; articles and research can be seen on her website. Her PhD
research (2002) leaflet showing the benefits of HE on numeracy, literacy
and social skills 'Home-Education: Aims,
Practices and Outcomes' can be purchased from EO
publications. |
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Comparison of home- and school-educated
children on PIPS baseline assessments. Paper by Paula Rothermel
for University of Durham |
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Evaluation and Research in Education Special
Edition on Home Education - edited by David Galloway with
guest editor Paula Rothermel. Available to purchase from EO
Publications. |
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Alan
Thomas - Educating Children at Home - Final chapter of this major
research project available to read here |
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Homeschooling
of Children with Disabilities by Lucy Reilly, Anne Chapman and
Tom O'Donoghue - a case study approach looking at six Western Australian
families. (This is a large pdf file and takes a while to download). |
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Homeschooling
Grows Up - The Homeschool Legal Defense Association (of America)
commissioned this research in 2003 from Dr Brian D Ray. It looks at
the lives of adults who were home schooled. |
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Homeschooling
Achievement - a quick snapshot of home school achievement for
the media and for those considering this successful educational venture
for their own children. |
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Homeschooling
Works - 20,760 student achievement test scores and their family
demographics make this the largest study of home education to date!
Results demonstrate that home schooled students are doing exceptionally
well and provide an informative portrait of America’s modern
home education movement. Conducted by Dr. Lawrence M. Rudner, Director
of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation. |
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Home
Education across the United States - produced by the Home School
Legal Defense Association in 1997 |
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Trevena
Whitbread Dissertation - an undergraduate dissertation from 2003
looking at college and university admission policies and attitudes
to home educated children. |
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Schools
of the Air - Not strictly home education, but a study done by
Fowler in 1987 of the Australian School of the Air radio/correspondence
schooling for isolated children. |
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Social
Development or Socialisation - by Linda Kreger Silverman PhD |
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Home
Schooling Review - 2003, a study of home schooling in Queensland,
Australia |
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Socialisation:
Homeschoolers are in the Real World - produced in 2002, again
by the Home School Legal Defence Association (of America) |
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Scholastic
Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students
in 1998 - An American study by Lawrence M Rudner |
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An
Investigation into the Teaching of Mathematics by Home Educators
- MsC Dissertation by Yoraisha Yusof, herself home educated |
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The
Choices Families Make: Home Schooling in Canada Comes of Age -
Report from the Fraser Institute on the success of home schooling. |
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Inclusion
and Autism: Is it Working? - Whilst not strictly about home education,
this report was produced by the National Autistic Society, and looks
at the experiences of children with autism and asperger's syndrom
in schools. It has been included here for the increasing number of
parents who are considering home education for their autistic spectrum
children due to inadequacies of provision at schools. |
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Home
Schooling: A British Perspective - Paper by Dr Sean Gabb drawing
together facts from a number of sources relating to home education
in the United Kingdom, fully referenced. PDF
version available. |
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LEAs Policy and Practice Regarding
Home-Based Education - Research paper by Dr Steven Lowden from
1995. This is a large file in pdf format. |
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Home-based
education effectiveness research - and some of its implications
- Research paper by Roland Meighan in 1994, published by Education
Now. Although the numbers used are now out of date, the rest of the
research is still valid. |
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A Comparative Study of Perceptions
held by State Officials and Home Educators in England and Wales and
in Florida, USA. - A study of tensions between home educators
and 'authority' by Sam Eddis. |
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What is Effective Pedagogy
when Informally Educating Electively Home-Educated Children? -
Case Study Research by Cassie Earl. |
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