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– Evaluation –
Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2)
Author: Bavolek, Stephen (1 more by this author); Keene, Richard G.
Description: This website provides psychometric information on the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2), a 40-item questionnaire used to assess the parenting attitudes and child rearing practices of adolescents and adults. The purpose of the inventory is to determine the degree to which respondents agree or disagree with parenting behaviors and attitudes known to contribute to child abuse and neglect.
Designing an Effective Questionnaire 
Author: Colosi, Laura (4 more by this author)
Description: This research brief provides some basic ideas on how to best write a questionnaire and capture the information needed to assess program impact.
Evaluation that Goes Beyond the Data
Description: Program evaluation is a process that documents the successes and efforts of outreach programs describing educational or behavioral impacts. Increasingly, educators who work with youth and family programs are asked to document program outcomes. These results have become increasingly important to educators and funders. However, with limited accessible information pertaining to program evaluation, educators are often challenged and frustrated by the need to design and conduct good evaluation. This article describes two accessible interactive Web sites that were designed to provide support to educators designing program evaluations. The first site is designed to assist educators in evaluating parenting education programs, in particular. The second site assists educators in designing effective evaluations for any program. These two Web sites offer educators a self-study opportunity to gain new skills and knowledge to support their program evaluation efforts.
Evaluation that Goes Beyond the Data
Description: This article describes two accessible interactive Web sites that were designed to provide support to educators designing program evaluations. The first site is designed to assist educators in evaluating parenting education programs, in particular. The second site assists educators in designing effective evaluations for any program. These two Web sites offer educators a self-study opportunity to gain new skills and knowledge to support their program evaluation efforts.
Description: FedStats provides a full range of official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government.
How to Read a Research Article
Author: Dunifon, Rachel (4 more by this author)
Description: This brief provides information on how to navigate through academic research articles, and also emphasizes the importance of staying up to date on the research in your chosen field of work.
Description: Provides information on developing good evaluation tools for use in parent education programs.
Measuring Evaluation Results with Microsoft Excel
Author: Colosi, Laura (4 more by this author)
Description: This brief illustrates one method for calculating mean scores among responses to evaluation instruments, and provides educators with a tutorial on how to perform basic functions using Microsoft Excel.
Program Development for Parenting Education Interactive Program Evaluation Development Site
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: An interactive website with easy to follow directions on program evaluation.
Description: This site is designed to help pursue the President's initiatives, including No Child Left Behind, and advance equal access to education and promote educational excellence for all Americans.
Description: The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
Description: This is the home page for the U.S. Census Bureau, providing timely information and data on demographics in the U.S.
What's the Difference? Post then Pre and Pre then Post
Author: Colosi, Laura (4 more by this author); Rachel Dunifon
Description: This brief highlights the strengths and weaknesses of two popular evaluation designs, lists possible criteria to choose a design, as well as the importance of reducing threats to validity when conducting an evaluation.
– Professional Development –
A Professional Guide for Parenting Educators: The National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework
Description: Effective parenting education is dependent on the quality of the educator, the curriculum, the educational setting, and awareness of parent characteristics and needs. This article outlines the National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework (NEPEF) to guide professional development in Extension and in the field of parenting education.
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
Description: The American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) is one of the oldest professional societies in the United States. Founded in 1909, its purpose is to improve the quality and standards of individual and family life through programs that educate, influence public policy, disseminate information and publish research findings. The association's over 12,000 members work to empower individuals, strengthen families and enable communities, and include: elementary, secondary, post-secondary and extension educators and administrators; other professionals in government, business and nonprofit sectors; and students preparing for the field.
Center for Parent Education - University of North Texas
Description: The University of North Texas Center for Parent Education provides research based information for parents, students and professionals working with parents and families
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
Author: Kerby, Alvy
Description: The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring provides information on parenting skill-building programs, training resources for parent educators, and links to other professional websites and resources.
Description: This web site offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.
Communicating Program Value of Family Life and Parenting Education Programs to Decision Makers
Description: This article challenges Family Life Extension educators to collectively arrive at strategies to convey the value of prevention education in communities and presents two examples of ways to explain program impact.
Emergence of the Professional Parenting Educator
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author); Karen DeBord
Description: This site provides information from a previously held interactive telephone training about parenting education.
Ginott's Method of Parent Education
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: Outlines the practices and applications associated with Ginott's Method of Parent Education, describing a process for parent educators can use to model the behaviors they are encouraging parents to practice with their children.
National Center for Education Statistics
Description: The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations. NCES provides news releases, links to other resources, statistics, and publications related to education.
National Extension Parenting Educators Framework
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); H. Wallace Goddard
Description: The National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework (NEPEF) builds upon the earlier effort, the National Extension Parenting Education Model (NEPEM) (Smith et al., 1994). The NEPEM model established six categories of priority practices and skills to be learned by parents and taught by parenting educators. NEPEF takes the original NEPEM categories "care for self, understand, guide, nurture, motivate, and advocate" and joins them with six more categories of practices aimed at the parenting educators alone "grow, develop, frame, embrace, build, and educate". Used in tandem, the six "content" categories (for parents) and the six "process" categories (for educators) will allow parenting educators to work most effectively with parents and children.
National Extension Parenting Educators’ Framework
Description: This website provides information for parenting educators on the National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework.
National Parenting Education Network (NEPN)
Description: The National Parenting Education Network is a national umbrella organization that encourage information sharing, professional development and networking oppportunities for the over 250,000 professionals, paraprofessionals and volunteers who serve as parent educators.
North Carolina Parenting Education Network
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: The North Carolina Parenting Education Network provides links to professional development resources and opportunities.
Author: Dunifon, Rachel (4 more by this author)
Description: The Parenting in Context Initiative, through Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, focuses on integrating extension and research activities in the area of parenting education. The website provides information on research, funding, evaluation and professional development.
Parenting: Have We Arrived? Or Do We Continue to Change?
Description: This paper examines various parent education models and explores their application to parenting education and the connections between research and parent practices.
– Programming Resource –
A Professional Guide for Parenting Educators: The National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework
Description: Effective parenting education is dependent on the quality of the educator, the curriculum, the educational setting, and awareness of parent characteristics and needs. This article outlines the National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework (NEPEF) to guide professional development in Extension and in the field of parenting education.
Description: This fact sheet provides advice on many aspects of raising children.
Advancing the Field of Parenting Education (PDF)
Author: Glasser, Debbie (1 more by this author)
Description: This article discusses why parents are so important to a child’s well being and how to educate parents.
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
Author: Kerby, Alvy
Description: The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring provides information on parenting skill-building programs, training resources for parent educators, and links to other professional websites and resources.
Description: This web site offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.
Communicating Program Value of Family Life and Parenting Education Programs to Decision Makers
Description: This article challenges Family Life Extension educators to collectively arrive at strategies to convey the value of prevention education in communities and presents two examples of ways to explain program impact.
Designing an Effective Questionnaire
Author: Colosi, Laura (4 more by this author)
Description: This research brief provides some basic ideas on how to best write a questionnaire and capture the information needed to assess program impact.
Family Life Education Materials Quality Assessment Tool
Description: This Quality Assessment Tool was designed to help family life educators and others who work with families to judge the quality of written and online materials aimed at families.
Description: FedStats provides a full range of official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government.
Ginott's Method of Parent Education
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: Outlines the practices and applications associated with Ginott's Method of Parent Education, describing a process for parent educators can use to model the behaviors they are encouraging parents to practice with their children.
Latino Parents: Unique Preferences for Learning about Parenting
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Julia T. Reguero de Atiles
Description: In order to provide maximum benefits to the growing Latino population in the United States, parent education programs must be examined to determine whether this population has unique needs that are not served with traditional parenting program curricula and delivery methods. In this study, 760 Latino parents were asked to respond to a questionnaire about their parenting information needs. Results indicate that parents prefer to receive parenting information from friends and family (75%), doctors or nurses (71%), group speakers (65%), and books (63%).
National Center for Education Statistics
Description: The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations. NCES provides news releases, links to other resources, statistics, and publications related to education.
National Registry of Evidence based Programs and Practices
Description: NREPP is a searchable online registry of more than 210 interventions supporting mental health promotion, substance abuse prevention, and mental health and substance abuse treatment.
Parent Training Programs: Insight for Practitioners
Description: This guide from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is based on a meta-analysis of the current research literature on training programs for parents with children ages 0 to 7 years old. Through meta-analysis, researchers investigated strategies being used in many types of programs. Rather than just assessing specific programs, they focused on program components, such as content (e.g., communication skills) and delivery methods (e.g., role-playing, homework). This guide summarizes their findings.
Author: Dunifon, Rachel (4 more by this author)
Description: The Parenting in Context Initiative, through Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, focuses on integrating extension and research activities in the area of parenting education. The website provides information on research, funding, evaluation and professional development.
Description: Parenting in Context site provides information geared to parent educators on how to evaluate parent education programs, funding tips, and how to write a grant proposals.
Program Development for Parenting Education Interactive Program Evaluation Development Site
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: An interactive website with easy to follow directions on program evaluation.
Sharing the Wisdom on Parenting: Turning Information Overload Into a Curriculum That Works (PDF)
Description: This article discusses the challenges of parents today and how to create a curriculum for parents providing information, skills, and support to help them better guide their children.
The Challenge of Being A Parent
Description: This fact sheet provides information on the challenges of parenting.
The Parenting Imperative: Investing in Parents so Children and Youth Succeed
Description: Parents are one of the most important influences in positive child and youth development, yet too many caregivers lack the support they need. The policy brief discusses strengthening parents and their connections to resources, communities can help children thrive.
Toward an Operational Definition of Evidence-Based Practices
Author: Dunst, Carl (2 more by this author); Patricia A. Cutspec; Carol M. Trivette
Description: This article provides an argument for the use of evidence-based and research-based practice in the field of family support and parent education program.
Description: This is one the of self-study units online linked with the National Extension Parenting Educator Framework (NEPEF). The modules were written by state specialists and include a PowerPoint presentation, handouts, and a transcript of the narration on the ppt, handouts and assignments.
– Research –
American Psychological Association
Description: Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States.
Description: Child Trends is a nonprofit children’s research organization with the mission of improving lives of children through research and science-based information.
Description: This web site offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.
Effective Parent Education Programs
Author: Colosi, Laura (4 more by this author); Rachel Dunifon
Description: This research brief summarizes features of successful parenting programs and describes criteria researchers use to determine the effectiveness of such programs. The goal of this brief is to provide parent educators with information about components of successful parent education programs, and to highlight the ways in which researchers evaluate the effects of such programs.
Description: FedStats provides a full range of official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government.
How to Read a Research Article
Author: Dunifon, Rachel (4 more by this author)
Description: This brief provides information on how to navigate through academic research articles, and also emphasizes the importance of staying up to date on the research in your chosen field of work.
National Center for Education Statistics
Description: The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations. NCES provides news releases, links to other resources, statistics, and publications related to education.
Parent Training Programs: Insight for Practitioners
Description: This guide from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is based on a meta-analysis of the current research literature on training programs for parents with children ages 0 to 7 years old. Through meta-analysis, researchers investigated strategies being used in many types of programs. Rather than just assessing specific programs, they focused on program components, such as content (e.g., communication skills) and delivery methods (e.g., role-playing, homework). This guide summarizes their findings.
Author: Dunifon, Rachel (4 more by this author)
Description: The Parenting in Context Initiative, through Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, focuses on integrating extension and research activities in the area of parenting education. The website provides information on research, funding, evaluation and professional development.
Description: Parenting in Context site provides information geared to parent educators on how to evaluate parent education programs, funding tips, and how to write a grant proposals.
Positive Parenting Can Have Lasting Impact For Generations
Description: A new study that looks at data on three generations of Oregon families shows that “positive parenting” – including factors such as warmth, monitoring children’s activities, involvement, and consistency of discipline – not only has positive impacts on adolescents, but on the way they parent their own children.
Resources for Doing Web-Based Research
Author: Colosi, Laura (4 more by this author); Rachel Dunifon
Description: This brief article is designed to provide educators with the tools needed to conduct web based research effectively. Instructions on how to obtain scholarly research via the web are provided, in addition to links to longer resource guides on assessing the value of information on the web.
Showcase North Carolina: Family Outreach Study Guides Parent Education
Author: Wicker, Karen
Description: To identify what parents of young children need to prepare their children for school, a Family Outreach Study was conducted by the Moore County Center of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. It was found that parents of young children sometimes feel they do not have the resources, support, nor skills to fulfill their role. It was also observed that although parents are motivated and have the desire to make changes for their children, they sometimes lack the skills and resources to take action. To address the needs identified in the Family Outreach Study, Parent Centers and the Parent Leadership Institute were implemented.
Author: Aufseeser, Dena; Brett Brown; Susan Jekielek
Description: This research brief reports on data about teens experiences in their families with a particular focus on differences across social groups. The purpose of the brief is to identify where disparities exist and where needs for intervention are greatest. The brief concludes with a discussion on implications for parenting and for policy.
Description: This article examines the barriers to the successful use and implementation of technology, including an organizational structure and the need for hands-on training.
Toward an Operational Definition of Evidence-Based Practices
Author: Dunst, Carl (2 more by this author); Patricia A. Cutspec; Carol M. Trivette
Description: This article provides an argument for the use of evidence-based and research-based practice in the field of family support and parent education program.
Description: This site is designed to help pursue the President's initiatives, including No Child Left Behind, and advance equal access to education and promote educational excellence for all Americans.
Description: The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
Description: This is the home page for the U.S. Census Bureau, providing timely information and data on demographics in the U.S.