Measuring the quality of family-professional partnerships in special education services
Issue Date
2005Author
Summers, Jean Ann
Hoffman, Lesa
Marquis, Janet
Turnbull, Ann P.
Poston, Denise J.
Lord Nelson, Louise G.
Publisher
Council for Exceptional Children
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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One difficulty in monitoring the quality of family-professional partnerships has been
the lack of a psychometrically acceptable and sufficiently general instrument with which to assess
them. The current work describes the development of the Family-Professional Partnership Scale,
which assesses parents' perceptions of the importance of and their satisfaction with family-professional
partnerships. Indicators were constructed from qualitative research on families with children
with and without disabilities, and the scale was refined across two field tests that included families
with children with a wide range of ages and disability types and severity. Both the 18-item overall
scale and the two 9-item subscales demonstrated excellent psychometric properties. The possible uses
of this scale in future research and service delivery are discuss
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Summers, Jean Ann, Hoffman, Lesa, Marquis, Janet, Turnbull, Ann P., Poston, Denise, Nelson, Louise Lord. (2005). Measuring the quality of family-professional partnerships in special education services. Exceptional Children, 72, 1, 65-82.
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