Impacts of Parental Involvement and Parents’ Level of Education on Student’s Academic Accomplishment

Won-Tack Lim

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Impacts of Parental Involvement and Parents’ Level of Education on Student’s Academic Accomplishment

Won-Tack Lim

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Received: 10 February 2021 Accepted: 20 February 2021 Published: 26 February 2021

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Parental involvement in school has been demonstrated to play a crucial role in children’s academic achievement. This article examines the relation of adolescent's academic achievement to parental involvement and parent’s education level, separately, grounded on a quantitative approach. All participants were middle-class dual-earner parents from eight cities across the United States. Spearman's correlation coefficient was used to find out if adolescent academic performance is correlated with parental involvement, and Mann–Whitney U test was utilized when children’s academic performance was compared between groups of parents with different educational levels. Results show that children’s academic achievement is only correlated with certain dimensions of parental involvement. Results further show that, across the board, children’s school achievements do not significantly differ across the groups with different levels of parents’ education if parents in all groups are equally committed to children’s education. As a result, this study concludes that the effect of parental involvement on children’s academic success differs by the type of parental engagement and that parents’ level of education does not carry much weight over children’s academic performance when all parents are actively involved in their schooling. Both limitations and suggestions for future studies are also discussed.

Published in	Education Journal (Volume 10, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.edu.20211001.15
Page(s)	35-39
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Parental Involvement, Academic Achievement, Education Level, Quantitative Approach, Middle-Class Dual-Earner Parents

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