This thesis is an investigation of parents' and children's reports of parental school-focussed behaviours. Items from two measures (Campbell, 1994; Mboya, 1993a) were combined and new items were added to create parallel items for children and parents. Families (n = 194) with students in the middle grades provided data for exploratory factor analyses of 64 items. Three solutions were selected, one for parents' responses, one for children's responses about their mothers, and one for children's responses about their fathers. Parent factors were named Participation with Homework, Concerns for Academic Motivation, Press for Literacy, Press to Excel, Encouragement of School Success, and Rules for Homework. Child factors were named Participation with Homework, Concerns for Academic Motivation, Press for Literacy, Press to Excel, Encouragement of School Success, and Management of the Learning Environment. Comparisons between parent and child responses reveal small divergences in perceptions of the same behaviours.