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Parental Involvement and Student Success: Article ReviewAlthough parental involvement is usually encouraged by schools, its precise effects upon student achievement remains controversial. In the article, “A New Framework for Understanding Parental Involvement: Setting the Stage for Academic Success,” published in the RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Harris and Robinson (2016) offer a new framework for understanding parental involvement to permit greater systematization in comparisons of studies; their framework is called stage setting, based upon the premise that, “Stage-setters create a life space—the parameters within which the actor’s performance occurs—that corresponds with the intended action” (Harris and Robinson, 2016, p.189). This article reflects the focus of the journal, which is to solicit peer-reviewed articles from academics from fields across multiple disciplines in the social sciences. According to the journal’s published guidelines, all academics within all fields can submit research, and multidisciplinary studies which incorporate multiple fields of study—in this case psychology and education—are encouraged.
The authors’ particular cross-disciplinary study was motivated by the fact that some research studies have confirmed a strong correlation between academic achievement in school and high levels of parental involvement. The question as to why there is...
It may be that parental involvement enhances student success or simply that students who do well in school have other common, shared factors that enhance the likelihood of involvement (such as parents with high socio-economic status). In the authors’ own review, “parental involvement was not related to achievement in more than half (53%) of the 1,556 associations between parental involvement and achievement,” contrary to expectations (Harris and Robinson, 2016, p.187). Again, this highlights common controversies within the social sciences in
regards to determining accuracy in research.
In this particular work, studies that did find a strong association between parental involvement and school success determined that the effect was enhanced in the primary grades. But even then, comparison between studies was problematic, given what constituted parental involvement was not consistent between studies. For example, one theory is that parental involvement enhances vocabulary development because of greater sophistication of adult conversation; other theories suggest parental involvement provides social reinforcement that counterweight potentially negative peer socialization in school. Comparing academic parental assistance emphasized in some studies versus parental social presence is challenging. The stage setting model emphasizes factors within the home environment which lay…
Parental Involvement Cripps, K. & Zyromski, B. (2009). Adolescents' psychological well-being and perceived parental involvement: Implications for parental involvement in middle schools. RMLE Online 33(4). In "Adolescents' Psychological Well-Being and Perceived Parental Involvement: Implications for Parental Involvement in Middle Schools," Cripps & Zyromski (2009) perform an analysis of prior literature on appropriate styles and levels of parental involvement with their middle school-aged children. The review of literature has methodological limitations in that
Parental Involvement With Educating Children It takes a village to raise your children, is not only a saying it is a fact. Teachers need the support of the parents and others involved with the child to reinforce what is being taught in the schools. As parents or guardian of children we should take an active role in the education process of our children. We can do so by ensuring their assignments
Studies also confirm that parental involvement may benefit not only students but also parents and communities. Parents who are more involved in their children's academic life are more likely to report positive perceptions of school and their children's achievements and more likely to participate in community events and activities. More and more researchers are adapting their views and emphasizing the need for increasing parental involvement at all levels of education.
Specifically the researcher proposes surveying parents and children about their school experiences and participation in the classroom. The researcher suggests surveying three groups of 30 members each consisting of 15 students and 15 parents. Survey questions will be provided in person to students and consist of straightforward questions that assess students views of how increasing parental involvement may affect their attitudes toward school and learning. The study will also examine
A study evaluating the personal biases held by educators in the context of parental involvement the (T.I.P.) project returned interesting results regarding intervention and assessment strategies designed to draw parents into the class room while maintaining the educator's sense of control and competence. It has been observed that while educator self-concept may differ, the successful involvement of parents in learning objectives results in increased assessment of educator competence by the
parental involvement and student academic success. The proposal examines previously published literature on the subject and then proposes a study to further examine the impact of parental involvement on the academic success of students. The writer explores several possible methods of study and chooses one most appropriate to the study being proposed and provides definitions and terms so that the reader has access to a full understanding of the