Family engagement efficacy beliefs are defined as the degree to which an educator believes they are capable of organizing and executing the courses of action required to partner with families for improving instruction and student learning. Efficacy beliefs are important to study because prior research has indicated that they are a reliable predictor of how much effort and persistence a person is willing to put into a task, especially when faced with challenges, and ultimately, how successful the person is likely to be in that area.
The Family Engagement Efficacy Beliefs of Educators (FEEB-E) Survey is copyrighted by Dr. Hadley F. Bachman (2023). It is freely available for individual educators to use. For school district requests for evaluation, a school district version of the FEEB-E can be created, and a report of results prepared. The FEEB-E is also freely available for researchers to use, with permission. Contact Dr. Bachman for more information about evaluation or research.
More about Family Engagement Efficacy Beliefs
Family engagement efficacy beliefs are a latent (unobservable) variable comprised of 5 factors, or dimensions:
- Efficacy for Collaborating for Learning
- Efficacy for Communicating
- Efficacy for Partnering
- Efficacy for Honoring All Families
- Efficacy for Embracing Equity
Studies
The FEEB-E survey was developed by Dr. Hadley F. Bachman (2023) through two studies:
- Study 1: The first drafted an initial 30-item survey based on the NAFSCE Family Engagement Core Competencies (2022). The initial survey was tested with a national sample of family-facing professional educators (N = 318) and refined through quantitative analyses.
- Study 2: A revised 20-item survey was tested with a sample of teachers in two schools in Ohio (N = 308), and a validation and reliability analysis determined that the survey measure produces reliable scores (α = .917) that are valid for interpretation as representing family engagement efficacy beliefs of educators and for use as a research instrument.
Read more about the development and the validation of the interpretation and use of its scores.
