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Research shows that the effectiveness of two-way family-school communications positively relates to the amount and quality of parental involvement, which in turn is associated with better student performance. Frustrated with the inconvenience or one-directionality of traditional forms of family-school communications, more teachers are designing and using class websites both for instruction and to establish two-way communications with families. The author recently completed a study that revealed that a teacher's intuition alone cannot always make those websites motivating to parents; motivational theories may shed a better light on the motivational ...
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