First Correlation Study between Family Organizational/ Administrative Functionality Scale Results and School Performance of the Young Human Capital at Public and Private Elementary, Middle and High School of the South/ Center of the US, Territory of Puerto Rico

Abstract

This quantitative study presents the first correlation between Family Organizational and Administrative Functionality and School Performance. To evaluate Family Organizational and Administrative Functionality is using the FOAF Scale (Vélez-Candelario, S., 2019) and the overall percent of it. This scale has 90% of the overall value. The intern consistency and the Factor Analysis are, .89 (Cronbach's Alpha) and the Factor Analysis shows a .8 KMO (Kaiser-Mayer-Olkin), recognizing each measured area as an independent factor. To analyze the school performance, we are using the General Point Average (GPA) at the school of each one of the participant. The study includes a socio-demographic document and parent consent. The sample is two-hundred-sixty-five (265) children with six (6) to seventeen (18) years old from public and private schools. It was from the south and center zone of Puerto Rico, with an education system based on the American model (Classbase, 2018). The sample is selected by availability from volunteer families and from Puerto Rico's Department of Educationn. The hypothesis investigation (Hi) is: Exist a positive correlation between Family Organizational/Administrative Functionality and school performance. For the statistical analysis, the sample is submitted in the SPSS 26 version and applies a Pearson's correlation formula and a sample descriptive Statistics. The findings show a positive correlation with a significance level of 0.01. The Pearson correlation degree between, FOAF and GPA, is medium, ρ = .341**, (Cohen 1988; in Wuensh 2015). The small correlation effect size is one in which there is a real effect, but one which can only be see-through careful study. A large effect size is an effect which is big enough such that it may be visible to the naked eye (Cohen 1988 in Walker 2007-08). The statistics analysis allowed the acceptance of the Hi confirming the existence of a positive correlation between FOAF Scale results and GPA at School. Keywords: Family, Organizational, Administrative, Functionality, Scale, School, Performance, Correlation.