Re: home schooling and development

[Rick Adams]

Hetzel, Rod wrote:

Hey folks:

I have a student who is interested in doing some research investigating
the impact of home schooling on social and emotional development.  I
don't know a whole lot about this area, so we are both in the
exploratory stages.  I'll be doing a literature search later this week,
but I'm curious if anyone on the list has done research in this area or
knows of any additional resources.  We have a lot of home-schooled
students at our university, so we have a pretty good sample of
convenience.  I've always suspected, just based on anecdotal evidence,
that there are some meaningful differences between our home-schooled and
non-home-schooled students, but it looks like we'll now have a chance to
do something a bit more scientific...
Thanks in advance!

Rod

 

   Rod,

   My wife and I home schooled our son (who is now a 19 year old Senior 
at Michigan State University majoring in Psychology, btw), and we did a 
fair amount of research on the topic before starting it.

   The best source I know of for up-to-date information on home 
schooling research is the Clonlara School in Ann Arbor, MI (I don't have 
their web page handy, but it's readily located on the web). Pat 
Montgomery did her doctoral work in the field and she has a LOT of 
research citations available for anyone who is interested.

   Hope it helps,

   Rick

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