The Relationship between Parent and Peer Attachment and Academic Performance of Grade 5 Pupils in Selected Elementary Public Schools in Division of Bacoor, Cavite

Abstract

The scope of the study is limited to the Likha Molino IV Elementary School, Gawaran Elementary School and Progressive Elementary School in Bacoor, Cavite. The study used the descriptive correlational method. A total of two hundred eighty-nine (289) pupils were the respondents of this study. An Inventory of Peer and Parent Attachment (IPPA), a standardized instrument was used as questionnaire of this research. The statistical treatment of data included were frequency, percentage, mean and Pearson Correlation. Likert scale was also used to determine the relationship between parent and peer attachment and academic performance of Grade 5 pupils in selected elementary public schools in division of Bacoor, Cavite. The pupils' attachment with parents and peer shows "sometimes true", it means that the relationship of the respondents with their peers and parents is not too close nor too loose. The academic performance of the pupils, majority got a grade of 80-84 which is Approaching Proficiency. The relationship between pupils' attachment and academic performance concluded that the pupils' attachments pair wise to their mother and peers are significantly related to their academic performance where the mother has p-value of 0.001 and the peer has a p-value of 0.000, while the father shows no significant relationship with a p-value of 0.961 which are greater than the level of significance which is 0.05. This revealed that there is no significant relationship between the respondents' parent and peer attachment and their academic performance. Based on the conclusions drawn, the following recommendations are formulated: (1) School principal and teachers should work together to prevent health issue on pupils and keep them healthy, and work together for a school "close monitoring" and continously evaluate the teachers performance. (2) The findings of this study should be presented to the administrators and lead to the principals to conduct a qualitative observation. (3) Parents' involvement is necessary to education. (4) The future researchers should conduct the same study through qualitative research.