Document Type
Graduate Project
Date of Degree Completion
Summer 1999
Degree Name
Master of Education (MEd)
Department
Education
Committee Chair
Steven A. Schmitz
Second Committee Member
James L. DePaepe
Third Committee Member
Osman Alawiye
Abstract
The purpose of this project was to see how parental involvement affected student achievement and how educators could involve parents at the middle grades and junior/senior high levels. American families and our society have changed dramatically over the past twenty-five years. These changes have had exciting effects on educational processes in schools. It has become a challenge to involve parents in the educational process, especially during the middle, junior and senior high school years. Parents are far more involved in their children's early childhood education than in their later years of schooling (Pryor, 1995). Involvement drops off dramatically when children enter the middle and junior/senior high school. Research studied in this project shows that there is a link between parent involvement and student achievement (Ho Sui-Chi, & Williams, 1996). This project explores research relative to decreased parent involvement, and how this phenomenon is impacting many public schools across the United States. It also explores what schools might do to increase parent involvement and student achievement.
Recommended Citation
Keene, Barbara Gohl, "A Literature Review of Parental Involvement in Public Schools from 1994-1999" (1999). All Graduate Projects. 615.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/graduate_projects/615