The Influence of Parental Involvement, Classified By Parent’s Demographic Factors, and Current Education Policy on Student Achievement in High School in NongChok District, Bangkok, Thailand

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study the influence parental involvement on student achievement in high schools in NongChok District, Bangkok, Thailand. To compare the level of parental involvement on the student achievement and to analyze the influence of parental involvement and education policy on the student achievement, it is classified by demographic factors.The population in this study are parents whose the children are currently studying in the public high schools in NongChok district, Bangkok, Thailand. The sampling process was determined by using a non-random sampling method. The calculated sampling size was 210 samples. Data were collected through the structured questionnaire whose the reliability was 0.88. The statistic used in the research were the descriptive statistics (percentage, mean, and Standard Deviation), One-way ANOVA, and Multiple Linear Regression. The result indicated that 60.5 percent of respondents were married mothers (79.5 percent), had received high schools or equal (51.4 percent), work as employees (43.8 percent), earn below or equal to 150,000 Baht per year (44.3 percent), and work less than or equal to 8 hours per day (71.9 percent).The hypotheses testing showed that the parents have various involvements in the students’ education process. The type of the parents also had a statistically significant influence on the students’ achievement at 0.01 level. The results of the multiple linear regression analysis found that the education policy had significantly affected the students’ achievement at 0.01 level, while the parental involvement had no statistically significant relationship with the students’ achievement. Moreover, the estimated equation can predict the studens’t achievement is at 28.4%.