Integrated parent information system (SMIB) to increase parental involvement in children's learning process in Malaysian primary school

Abstract

Parent involvement in children's learning process is continuously correlated with children higher academic achievement in school. Nevertheless, community awareness of the importance of parental involvement in children's learning process in Malaysia is still less than satisfactory level. Deficient in knowledge resources supports lead to the parent's reluctance to involve in the children's learning process. This research focuses on framework which outlines an integrated parent information system (SMIB) to mediate the parents and their children's academic achievement plus school activities information. According to the framework, the components include the parents, teachers and school administrator module. Teachers provide information about their students and knowledge resources while parents gain information and initiate communication with teachers. At the meantime, school administrator control access to parents and teachers, create new users and manage the content of the system. Functionally, SMIB's main focus is to provide comprehensive tutorial and notes which is generated based on children's academic achievement level. These knowledge resources aid the parents in guiding their children throughout the learning process effectively specially in homework. This research utilizes questionnaire approach on a random sample of parents to acquire the information regarding the parent's involvement level and to gather parent's requirement in order to increase their involvement in the children's learning process. The questionnaire study reveals that parents desires for knowledge resources support to assists them in children's learning process. Thus, this research is helpful to facilitate the parents to be actively involved in their children's learning process and relieve the schools in portraying close relationship with parents parallel with their effort to ensure high academic achievement in the children's overall performance.