Parental Involvement

Literature Review

Parental factors affecting academic achievement of grade six pupils in Kisumu city, Kenya

Lazarus Ndiku Makewa, Elizabeth Role, Faith Otewa

This particular research article was casual comparative research, a questionnaire and document analysis was used to collect information. The purpose of this study was examined parental factors affecting academic performance of a particular grade. Parental involvement is one factor that focused in this study. This research finding shows that parental involvements is statistically and significantly influence academic performance of the student. To confirm achievement in school, children want their parents backing for school and non-school activities. Parent involvement may be more challenging

The study used a quantitative research approach. Data was collected using a questionnaire administered to 114 students’ parents. The main findings are that all the parents who responded are extremely involved with their children’s education. They have high expectations towards their children’s education and performance. Results advance indicate that home and family care is the most important factor that regulates a learner’s performance. Most of the parents deliberate themselves to have a good communication with their child’s teachers and the school. Children’s homework is measured to be significant by each parent and they all contribution their children with homework. Thus, it may be concluded that by continuing involved with their children’s education, parents do influence positively on the academic achievement of the students. Paul and Hlanganipai (2014) suggested that “Learning at home pertains to providing ideas and information to parents about how they can best assist their children with homework and curricular related decisions and activities. Parent involvement in learning activities at home among others refers to parent-initiated activities or child-initiated requests for help, and ideas or instructions from teachers for parents to monitor or assist their own children at home on learning activities that are

Casual Comparative Research determines to identify the cause effect relationships. It is typically involve two or more groups and independent variables. Each group in a causal comparative research represents a different population. Interpretation of the findings requires considerable caution because the cause may be the effect and the effect may be the cause. A causal-comparative design was most suitable because the possible cause-and-effect relationship between parental involvement and academic achievement was discovered.

Participants for this study were from parents and teachers of grade 1-7 in island school. At the time of data collection, the school population for 1-7 is 170 students and 25 teachers. When this study was conducted 90% of the parents were females and 10% of them are male. I selected 100 parents from different grades and 100 students from different