Focuses on parents' involvement with schools through the education of their own child's home learning activities. Also discusses other forms of involvement such as volunteering and sitting on advisory boards. Home-school collaboration to improve home learning environment is connected to elementary school-age student achievement. (LHW)

Motivation is vital to all learning with the possible exception of incidental learning. Home study may adapt motivational learning theory to its goals by considering basic concepts with related examples. First, the more advance reasons an individual has to believe in the value of home study, the more likely will be the success of educational…