Family Structure and Parental Involvement Vis-à-vis Science Performance of Grade 7 Students of Samar National School
Keywords:
Family Structure, Parental Involvement, Science Performance, StudentsAbstract
This study assessed the family structure and parental involvement vis-à-vis Science performance of Grade 7 students of Samar National School during the school year 2014-2015. This study employed a descriptive-correlational design with comparative analyses in order to come up with its objective which was the determination of the family structure and parental involvement vis-à-vis science performance of Grade 7 students of Samar National School in Catbalogan City. All the eight indicators, have weighted means ranges 3.51 – 4.50 provided a grand weighted mean of 3.51; thus, the student-respondents rated their mother as “highly involved” in terms of learning/tutoring at home. The student perceived their father and mother as moderately involved in school-related activities while their guardian is highly involved in the said parameter, in terms of learning/tutoring at home, the student-respondents rated their father as moderately involved and their mother and guardian as highly involved in the said aspect, and in terms of school performance monitoring, the student-respondents rated their father as moderately involved while their mother and guardian is highly involved for this aspect. In comparison to the extent of parental involvement of father, mother and guardian of the student-respondents along parameter school-related activities, the guardian is more involved than the mother, and the mother is more involved than the father. It is all true in the two remaining parameters: learning/tutoring at home and school performance monitoring.
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