Parental involvement in students' academic achievement: A preliminary study

The objective of this research is to provide information on what teachers think regarding parents playing a role in educating their children, to find out the teachers' perception and parents' response on how much time is spent by the parents in helping their children academically and to finding out how the teachers of this school perceive parental help in assisting them (the teachers) improve the students academically. The research method used for this study is the quantitative method involving both parents and teachers. The quantitative method uses a questionnaire which will be distributed to 150 respondents in schools of similar academic performance. The questionnaire for this research was adapted by using this questionnaire from Teachers Involving Parents (TIP) in service program, as reported Hoover-Dempsey, Walker, Jones & Reed (2002) and Teacher Beliefs About Parental Involvement: reported in Hoover-Dempsey et al. (2002); adapted from Epstein, Salinas & Horsey, 1994.