Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between parental involvement and academic achievement of children in some selected full cycle government primary schools of Bahirdar city. To achieve this objective, 180 sample students were selected by using simple random sampling technique. The collected data was analyzed through, spearman correlation, analysis of variance and independent-test. The finding of the study revealed that the statistical analysis on independent t-test showed that there was a statistically significant difference between male and female students with regard to their academic achievement (t=6.25, df = 178, p<0.05). The finding of spearman correlation indicates that there was significant relationship between parental involvement and academic achievement of students (r=.56, p <.05). The result on one way ANOVA displayed that there was statistical significant difference among respondents academic achievement with regard to their parental level of education (F 2, 176) = 17.084, P<0.05. In conclusion, parental involvement is positively correlated with academic achievement of students and males have better academic performance than their female counter parts.
Highlights
Background of the StudyThe effort of Parental involvement is an asset in students’ academic achievement during elementary School alone, and throughout secondary school (Henderson, 2002)
There is an increasing perception of the possible of parent involvement to lift up the academic attainment of all students, for the creation of an integral part for school improvement initiatives (Jeynes, 2007) The role of parental involvement has long been thought to be vital important to the academic achievement of their children
In Ethiopian context, general studies such as Father’s Educational Involvement and Children’s educational Aspiration, educational Self-Concept and academic achievement of Primary School Students (Mariamawit, 2014), the relationship among parenting styles, academic self-concept, academic motivation and students’ academic achievement in fasilo secondary school adolescents (Asrat, 2018) were conducted and none of them did not elucidate the relationship between parental involvement and academic achievement of students in a separate manner
Summary
Background of the StudyThe effort of Parental involvement is an asset in students’ academic achievement during elementary School alone, and throughout secondary school (Henderson, 2002). A combination of research on parent involvement in schooling reveals that all these evidences are consistent, positive, and convincing: Indicating that families have a major role on their children’s success in school and throughout life (Desforges & Abouchaar, 2003). This because when schools, families, and community work hand in hand jointly to support learning, children tend to do superior in school, stay at school longer, and be fond of school more. Taking the above gap in to account the current study focus on the relationship between parental involvement and academic achievement of primary school students
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