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Parental Involvement and Academic Performances of Grade 7 Students

2020; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.3630178

1556-5068

Julieth Valenzuela Leander, Frederick Edward T. Fabella,

Parental Involvement in Education

This study is focused on the Parental Involvement and the Academic Performances of Grade 7 students in Marikina High School, Relatively this study discussed the level of Parental Involvement in terms of Epstein’s six types of Parental Involvement . It Identified the relationship between the level of Parental Involvement and Academic Performance of the students by getting their General Weight Average for the second grading period. This research followed the Descriptive relational research design to determine the relationship between the Parental Involvement and Academic Performance of Grade 7 Students in Marikina High School. The Systematic Cluster Sampling procedures were utilized in this study , there were 265 respondents ( Parents of students ) from 7 sections of 20 sections for Grade 7 level of Marikina High School, School Year 2019- 2020.In order to obtain the pertinent data for this study , the deportment part of the students’ report card was used as it showed the academic performance . On the other hand, a Likert Scale Questionnaire was used to identify the level of Parental Involvement to categorize the Parental Involvement ( at home and school ) The researcher used the Family Involvement Questionnaire based on Epsteins’ Framework on Parental Involvement. The profile variables of the parents were also considered and correlated with the level of Parental Involvement, In terms of educational attainment parents, who finished high school had the largest frequency followed by elementary graduates and the rest were able to get higher level of education. In terms of Gender female parents or guardians mostly answered the survey or questionnaire. The parents with the age of 30-35 got the highest frequency. In terms of socio–economic status it showed that average monthly salary of family was about 11,000- 15,999 who got the highest percentage out of 265 parents respondents. The level of Parental involvement consisted of two variables ( school and home ) .The Level of parental involvement at home in terms of parenting, learning at home, decision making and communicating indicated that the parents were frequently involved except for decision making where the parents agreed that they sometimes participated in the decision about school matters. The level of Involvement of Parents in school such as volunteering , collaborating , decision making and for communicating was also frequent. Similarly the academic performance of the students were significantly correlated with the level of parental involvement at school. The age and educational attainment of parents were significantly correlated with the level of involvement of parents in the education of their children at home. The Parental involvement was moderately high level and the academic performance of grade 7 students was moderately satisfactorily in their class in grade 7. The findings of this study implies that Parental Involvement is very important to achieve the academic performance of students, especially those who were found to have unsatisfactory grades. The school could work in collaboration with the parents with the end view of bringing about improvement in the academic performance of the students. It is thus recommended that school should consider coming up with activities, projects or programs that will entice the parents to volunteer to be part of the said activity / project or program. It is also recommended that open communication be enhanced among parents, children and teacher to establish rapport. Guidance Counselor may take integrative programs to support the efforts of parents and teachers when it comes to academic performance of students. The school should consider conducting seminar / workshop for the parents on the use of technology and online spaces resources as a potential new formats to support parental involvement.