Families’ Involvement at Primary School and Its Impact on Their Children’s Performance in Mathematics

Abstract

This paper focuses on examining the influence of parents' involvement in class on the students' performance in math, the way parents get involved with the school, and their effects on the pupil's success. The study attempts to identify a number of aspects that influence parents' involvement or uninvolvement in education and factors that impact student math performance. In this context, the researcher conducted quantitative research using three questionnaires for students, parents, and teachers. The validity and reliability of the questionnaires were checked and the results were analyzed in SPSS. A total of 302 people participated in the study: 132 sixth graders, 67 parents of the students, and 103 mathematics educators. This study was carried out in Arab elementary schools in Israel within the period of 2022-2023. The findings show that parents' involvement in the decision-making process of their children's education increases based on the parents' level of education. In other words, the higher the parents' level of education, the more they get involved at school. The findings reveal that parents and educators also have a high level of trust and the way parents track their children's education reflects their involvement in school. There is also a statistically significant relationship between student success and parental involvement at school. The researchers recommended focusing on communication between parents and mathematics teachers in the school and the meaningful participation of parents in the school.