Effect Of Parental Involvement In Academic Performance Of The Children- A Survey

Abstract

Introduction:

Parental involvement includes several different forms of participation in school education. Parents can support their children schooling by attending school functions and responding to school obligations. They can become more involved in helping their children improve their school work-providing encouragement, arranging for appropriate study time and space, modeling desired behavior, monitoring homework, and actively tutoring their children at home.

Aim:

The aim of this survey was to spread awareness about parental involvement in academics.

Materials and methods:

A questionnaire was distributed through an online google form link to about 100 people. The study population was asked to fill out the online form. Descriptive statistics were performed to evaluate the frequency and percentages of these variables. Age was stratified into various groups at many intervals. The other features such as sex, location, age and gender and their outcomes were analyzed. Chi square test was done using the SPSS software to find the relationship between the data such as age, sex, gender, and location.

Results:

The results were collected and the data was analyzed using SPSS version 20 and p value <0.05 was considered statistically significant.  From the study population, the whole of 100% of the participants gave a positive response when asked if they were aware of parental involvement in academics.

Conclusion:

With the limitations of the study, we conclude that the effect of parental involvement in academics were majority of the study population is aware of parental involvement in academics. Females are more aware about the effects of parental involvement in academics than males.