Parental Involvement

Parental Involvement and Children’s Education

Argosy University

Author Note

This research was carried out as partial fulfillment towards experimental methods course by.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research is to define parental involvement in academic success. Previous research has suggested that parental involvement has increased a child’s academic success. This research focused on the success of parental involvement and surveyed the lower 25th percentile of students. The hypothesis suggested that parental involvement of ten hours of week with their children will increase their academic success.

Keywords: Parental, involvement, education, academic, success, community

Parental Involvement and Children’s Education

Education plays a very important role in a person’s life and development. Statistics have suggested that higher education leads to increase in the average median of salary of individuals (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2011). In October 2008, statistical data revealed that approximately 3.0 million, 16-24 year olds had not enrolled in high school and had not earned a diploma. The statistics for dropout rates appears alarming but changes have been made to the educational system that dropout rate trend downward since 1972 from 14.6 percent to 8.0 percent in 2008. The importance of education is tremendous and in an idea world, the dropout rate should be the lowest possible for future generations to be successful. Parent’s involvement in education is a resource that starts with birth from simple tasks of walking and talking and grows into complicated algorithms and educational needs as children grow.

The purpose of the paper is to define if parental involvement does help increase their children’s academic success and to focus on the population that grades fall into the...