Parental involvement plays a very important role in the development of child's formal education. Even though there are many benefits parental involvement, factors that constrain involvement. This study explored various management strategies might serve as guidelines to improve Southern Tshwane primary schools. The conceptual framework informed this was Factors Determine School Effectiveness by ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate both parent and child perceptions parental involvement, expectations, pressure, warmth, the relationship these variables with GPA. It hypothesized that each independent would be positively correlated GPA, excluding which negatively also combination high expectations low involvement have a positive pressure negative warmth. Parents (n = 158) children ...

Abstract Parental involvement in mathematics learning can positively affect student achievement and wellbeing but is challenging to establish maintain. Asian immigrants make up around 15% of New Zealand’s population, yet little known about these parents’ their child’s schooling. To examine the experiences parental East parents, data from semi-structured interviews carried out with eleven parent...

BACKGROUND Homework is a universal practice used in schools, and is commonly related to academic achievement. According to literature, parental homework involvement has positive and negative aspects, depending on parents’ behaviors. METHOD Assuming a phenomenographic perspective, this study examined 4th graders’ parents’ conceptions of their involvement in homework. With the...

Parental school involvement and satisfaction are unstudied in families raising a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To fill this gap, the current study utilized a national sample of families (N  =  8,978) from the 2007 Parent and Family Involvement in Education survey ( U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2006-2007 ). Parents of children with ASDs ...

Research demonstrates the positive impact of parental involvement on students, families and schools. Studies also indicate a close connection between effective school-home communication and increased parental involvement and engagement in learning. Effective selection and use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) invites more effective school-home communication, increasing parental in...

In a sample of low-income families (N = 239), structural equation models assessed predictors of fathers' involvement with preschool-aged children in instrumental, behavioral, and emotional realms. Results suggest that parental conflict has a strong negative relation with father involvement. Fathers' human capital characteristics, healthy psychosocial functioning, and past stability in family re...

BACKGROUND Risks associated with parental separation have received limited attention in research on children of parents with substance use disorders. We examined early substance involvement as a function of parental separation during childhood and parental alcohol and cannabis dependence. METHOD Data were drawn from 1318 adolescent offspring of monozygotic (MZ) or dizygotic (DZ) Australian tw...

Several authors have speculated that differences in parental involvement across parents’ educational attainment may influence the intergenerational transmission of education; however, these literatures have yet to be formally integrated. We begin to fill this gap in the literature by estimating augmented intergenerational mobility models that include measures of parental involvement and childre...

Background: Risks associated with parental separation have received limited attention in research on children of parents with substance use disorders. We examined early substance involvement as a function of parental separation during childhood and parental alcohol and cannabis dependence. Method: Data were drawn from 1,318 adolescent offspring of monozygotic (MZ) or dizygotic (DZ) Australian t...