Impact of Parental Involvement in the Academic Achievement of Grade 3 Pupils in San Pablo Central School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Parents, teachers, pupils, and others view one another as partners in education, a caring community forms around the pupils and pupils' behavior, attitude toward school, attendance in classes and consequently, their academic achievement will greatly improve. That is to say, schools will come to be "family-like schools" and homes or families will be "school-like families," to use the words of Epstein. Parents are the most prominent figure in the lives of the children. They are the children's first teachers and they serve as role models. Nowadays being involved in the school activities of the children is a must, especially at the primary level from which the basic learning happens.

METHODS

Descriptive method was used to determine the respondents' perceptions about their parental involvement, mean and standard deviation were used on a five-point rating scale, analysis of variance (ANOVA) this determined if there was a significant difference between the pupils' grades in the first and second quarter under each type of parent involvement using the F-test . This investigation involved Grade 3 students the population comprised a total of 562 grade 3 pupils from 15 sections in San Pablo Central School.

RESULTS

Based on the findings of this study, the context of the home and school environment of the pupil respondents, the more actively parents contribute to the diverse features of their children's schooling, whether it be as parenting, communicating, learning at home, decision making and volunteering type of parental involvement, the positive impact on the pupils' academic performance, attitude and behavior can always be expected and is significant regardless of the socio-economic status and educational attainment of the parents. The greater the parental involvement, the higher the academic achievement of the pupils.

DISCUSSIONS

This research identifies the different cases of parental involvement using the different approaches that can make or break our learners. The five (5) type of parental involvement which yielded the most significant impact on the grades of the pupil participants. In school, teachers can detect and predict who among her/his pupils have parents who always demonstrate concern for their children's behavioral and academic performance, and attitude inside the classroom, however independent variable in this study is parent involvement while the dependent variable is the academic achievement of grade 3 pupils.