To Study the Difference in the Participation Level of Parents in the Education of Pakistani Students from Grade 7 To 10: Relation with Gender and Level of Studies

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between parental involvement and academic performance of students from grade 7 to 10. The sample consisted of 100 literate parents who were at least high school graduates (Inter or A levels), 50 mothers and 50 fathers who were randomly selected. Before conducting the research, two things were hypothesized. Firstly, parental involvement promotes students academic success and secondly mothers tend to be more involved than fathers. Correlation was used to examine the relationship between parental involvement and academic performance. The results showed that there was a strong positive correlation of .751 between parental involvement and academic performance. Regression analysis was used to determine how strong the relationship between parental involvement and academic performance was and significance level was found out to be less than 0.05 showing significant relationship. Independent t test was used to evaluate the difference between the participation of mothers and fathers and the results showed a significant level of 0.01 which was less than 0.05 showing significant variation in the participation of mothers and fathers with mothers participation was greater than the fathers. For both the hypotheses, null hypothesis was rejected and alternate hypothesis was accepted.

Estrategias docentes para favorecer la participación familiar en educación secundaria: cruce de miradas

“…La definición de participación familiar reviste un reto para profesores, directivos escolares, para los propios padres y madres de familia, así como para la comunidad y el gobierno (Priyanto et al, 2019); y como reto, se asume conforme a la experiencia, valores y creencias de los diversos actores educativos. Para Ismail (2017) el término participación de padres llega a ser confuso, y en ese sentido menciona que el concepto toma dos rumbos, uno que refiere las actividades de las familias desde casa, y otro que alude a la forma en que los padres se involucran en las escuelas. Es importante que el personal administrativo y docente, implementen procedimientos para favorecer la participación familiar a través de acciones o estrategias claras; el fortalecimiento de dicha participación se visualiza como necesidad ya que se ha reportado que no es frecuente el contacto de los padres con los docentes (Rodríguez et al, 2016;Lusse et al, 2019) o que su participación en las actividades escolares es ocasional por falta de tiempo y disponibilidad (Solís y Aguiar, 2017).…”