LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 6 June 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Role of Parental Involvement in Their Children’s Studies
and Children’s Achievement

Shamsa Aziz Ph.D., Hamid Hassan, Ph.D., and Naushaba Atta, Ph.D.

Abstract

Present study was undertaken to explore the perceptions of parents, teachers and students regarding involvement of parents in the studies of their children. The study also identified the relationships between the perception of parents, teachers and students about parents’ involvement in the studies of their children and students’ achievement.

Five Islamabad colleges for boys and five Islamabad colleges for girls were randomly selected as the population for the study. Ten students from 10th Grade, one teacher and ten parents of these students from each college were selected as sample of the study.

Three separate instruments were developed for students, parents and teachers.Respondents had to rate their answers on a five point scale with options 0%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. Scoring was made by assigning marks. Achievement scores of students were obtained from their result of 9th Grade.

Data were analysed by usisng Pearson product moment correlation. Highly positive relationship was found between both the parents’ and students’ perception about the involvement of the parents into the studies of their children and childrens’ achievement, but there was a weak relationship between perception of teachers about parent involvement and students’ achievement.

It is reccomended that parents may be honoured by school management and teachers for their contribution towards school, and parents should aso try to develop a relationship with teachers who are working with their children.

Introduction

Education is the backbone of any society. Only those nations that give preference to education sector can prosper well and be recognized well in the world. In our Pakistan society (and in South Asia), this responsibilty is thrown only on schools’ shoulders. It can be identified as one of the reasons for the downfall and substandard of education in public sector institutions. Parents’ involvement in the education of their child is the element which cannot be ignored. When schools work together with families to support learning, children tend to succeed not only in schools but also in their life. When parents create environment that encourages learning, express high expectations for their childrens’ achievement and became invloved in their childrens’ education, they really contribute to their childrn’s achievment.

The term parental involvement includes several forms of participation with schools, parents can support their children’s schooling by attending school fuctions and responding to school obligations. They can be more invloved through providing encouragement in homework, arranging for appropriate study times, quite space and actively tutoring their children at home. Parental invlovement is also defined as reading a bedtime story to your preshool children, checking homework every night, discussing your children’s problems with teacher, voting in school elections, helping school to set challenging acadamic standards, limited viewing of television, getting personally involved in governig school. Parental invlovement can be as simple as asking your children how was school today. This will give message to children that their school work is important for their parents.

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Shamsa Aziz, Ph.D.
International Islamic University, Islamabad

Hamid Hassan, Ph.D.
Federal College of Education, Islamabad,

Naushaba Atta, Ph.D.
Government college for Elementary Teachers, Islambad

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