Positive Consequences Of Parents Involvement In Student Academic Achievement

In an educational environment portrayed by an immense weight on accountability, our nation has been occupied outlining its educational goals to allow us to take part in a global economy. Even in this situation, the notion of family and parent participation in school takes precedence. There are two substantial examples of this. First, in 1994, Congress constituted the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. In composition with Goal Flight, "By the year 2000, every school will promote partnerships that will increase parent involvement and participation in promoting the social, emotional, and academic growth of children" (Sec. 102, 8, A). Some of the aspirations of this goal encompassed the installation of programs to increase parent involvement, encouraging parents in the support of academic excellence of children at home, and shared decision making at school. Second, parents are referred to a few hundred times in various parts of the No Child Left Behind Act (2002), specifically in Section 1118, Title 1. This section of the Act is written explicitly for parent involvement. “More specifically, this section requires that school districts and schools receiving Title I dollars must have a written parent involvement policy and build school capacity to effectively

The scope of this research is to impart imminent knowledge characterizing hindrances and impediments that avert parents from participating in their child’s education process. Parents and educators will be asked to articulate their perceptions and mindset by clearly defining parental involvement while identifying perceived psychological, emotional, and physical barriers that inhibits parents from becoming stakeholders in the school climate. This study may assist impoverished, rural schools in decreasing and possibly eliminating visible academic disparities. This study may also assist educators, school leaders, and community stakeholders in high poverty, rural communities in understanding the cultures, norms, and attitudes associated with poverty that are contributing factors to the lack of parental involvement often constraining the academic success and achievement of the child. The study may also serve as a model for others so they can actively engage parents in taking a participatory role throughout the educational progress of their children.

When it comes to parent’s involvement, I believe the biggest reason for them not involved is the lack of communication between parents, students and teachers when the start middle school. In elementary school, the parent is the advocate for their student while being concern about their academic experience, but as the student becomes more independent, the parent takes a step back and allows the student to voice their concerns in their education. Another reason parents are not involved with their students education is they inability to understand what is needed in order for them to succeed. Sadly, a lot of parents do not have the accurate education to show their student the importance of education, therefore, they within themselves do not view

This research examined parental involvement for school-aged children K-12. The research included 24 studies that were conducted through 1980-2002. The studies were all measured using the same parental involvement component. This study involved a set of comprehensive criteria that was proposed by the American Psychological Association Division 16 Task Force. It explained that during majority of the 20th century that parental

Parents are a primary role in their child’s developing stages of life, especially education. Even if they do not realize it, parents play a major part in whether their child succeeds academically or not. Studies have been done to demonstrate the need for parental involvement in children’s school life; the question is how involved should parents be. There are multiple views on how involved a parent should be in their child’s education. Children need a support system to help guide them throughout their school career; the argument between many is how involved parents should be in their child’s academics.

In “Opening Doors: Understanding School and Family Influences on Family Involvement” by Erin Carlisle discussed how that there is many different influences that will affect how many parents are involved in the schools. Those influences could be school-related or even family-related. Most of the time, people think that parent involvement is just how much parents volunteer and help their children with their homework. But there are many other ways parents could be involved in the school: going to school activities or functions, being in leadership roles, or visiting your child’s classroom. If parents are involved in schools, it will help ease the students transition into schools in the beginning. Also, if the parents are involved the relationship

Parental involvement is critical in facilitating children’s development and achievement and in preventing educational and developmental problems. Declining achievement scores, rising educational costs, and distrust of bureaucratic institutions are among the factors which have refocused attention on the rights, responsibilities, and impact of parents.

Historically, parents were extremely involved in their children’s education. Back before one-class schools, a child’s education was in the hands of their parents (Anguiano, 2004). Parental involvement began to decrease during the mid-1800s when cities began to see urban and industrial developments, creating a separation between families and schools (Anguiano, 2004). Although over the course of decades the gap between schools and families has increased, the need for parental involvement continues to be constant. According to McCormick and Ozuna (2012), decades of research demonstrate a positive correlation between the level of parental involvement and student achievement. Epstein and Dauber (1991) as

The purpose of attempting to improve parental involvement is because research has found parental involvement to be predictive of the students’ commitment and performance in school. “When schools, parents, families, and communities work together to support learning, students tend to earn higher grades, attend school more regularly, stay in school longer, and enroll in higher level programs” (Van Rockel).

Saying there are academic benefits to parent involvement can be pretty simple, but what about proof? There has been much research done that shows a strong correlation between student achievement and parent involvement. A recent article in Education Week called “Parent Involvement” discussed a test that showed one of the reasons parent involvement benefits student achievement is because parents have control over three main factors: student absenteeism, variety of reading materials in the home, and the amount of television watched. The study said that these three factors account

Parental Involvement plays a large role is student education. Parental involvement in schools is not always an easy task yet, it is very beneficial for everyone involved in a child’s educational development. Students must see that parents have an invested interest in what transpires at school. When parents are involved at schools they become more aware of how to best help their child at home. In addition, “students are more inherently interested in learning, and they experience higher perceived competence” (Gonzalez,-DeHass, Williams and Holbein, 2005, p. 117). Parents and teachers must create a positive partnership or teamwork to show the student the importance of learning in and outside of school. Overall, schools, parents, teachers and students benefit from positive parent involvement leading students to become successful life-long learners.

The primary participants for this study are marginally involved parents of low performing students attending a high poverty, rural school district in north central Oklahoma. The participants of this study will be selected during Fall 2015. Prior human subject approval from the researcher’s university will be obtained prior to the selection of participants. The researcher chose to select five parents from each grade level in Timothy C. Arnold Middle School and Oilton High School to represent viewpoints and perceptions related to parent involvement and academic achievement. The names of participants will be selected from sign-in sheets filled out at the “Meet Your Teacher Night”, an annual parent involvement activity sponsored by the district each year prior to the beginning of school. Teachers and administrators from the school district will also a data source. Two school sites were selected to

The primary participants for this study are marginally involved parents of low performing students attending a high poverty, rural school district in north central Oklahoma. The participants of this study will be selected during the Fall 2015 semester. Prior human subject approval from the researcher’s university will be obtained prior to the selection of participants. The researcher intends to select five parents from each grade level in Timothy C. Arnold Middle School and Oilton High School to represent viewpoints and perceptions related to parent involvement and academic achievement. The names of participants will be selected from sign-in sheets filled out at the “Meet Your Teacher Night”, an annual parent involvement activity sponsored by the school district, community organizations, and businesses each year prior to the beginning of

Research has demonstrated that parent’s educational involvement clearly benefits children’s school learning and achievement (Toren, 2013). This research article focuses on two types of strategies for involvement: home-based involvement strategies and school-based involvement strategies. Home-based involvement

The value that parents place upon education for their kids is important because kids model the teachings of their parents more often, learning what they (the parents) think is important as their (the students) own importance. Stephanie Brueck and her colleagues, who write the article “The Relationship Between Parental Involvement During High School and Collegiate Academic Mastery” published in Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research, state “... [there is] improved academic performance among children with high amounts of parental involvement...” (99). With improved academic performance, parents become more involved in their children's’ educations. There are the totally supportive parents, who urge their children to strive for better