Literature Review On Parental Involvement In School

Literature Review:

Parental involvement has been proven to help their students academic success and behavioral success at schools. However, there are many types of ways that parents can be involved in their students education. Student involvement can range from attending athletic games, assemblies volunteering at the school and having a connection and relationship with the school. Parent involvement can also range by different cultures and their believes on their involvement in school and their perception of what the school needs to do. As researchers Grolnick, Benjet, Kurowski, Apostoleris, & Pressley (1997) have explained is that they found several ways to define parental involvement in the school. The reserches wanted to pin point some of the extent not on parental involvement, because it may differ from race and cultures. The researchers discovered that there were three main

The three main ways a parent can be involved is first through personal aspects of the students life like this could be hobbies the student enjoys or extracurricular activities the student might be apart of. The second aspect is being involved in school activities such as parent meeting school conferences, school sports games, or if the student sees their parent volunteering. The last and final aspect is cognitively. (Grolnick 1997) Also the study had found that there are demographic issues that factor into parental involvement. This may affect parent involvement in terms of having to work late hours or two jobs. The study also found several other important factors. Parents who have higher education and who also make more money tend to be more involved in their students education. Also parents who who are still together and not divorced or separated. The studies found that found that those who have lower incomes and those parents who have less education and also those of single parents tend to have students who struggle in their academics and tend to have