Survey the relationship between parents' participation with academic achievement of fifth-grade students in Gorgan city

Subject Areas : ‌Family

sadraddin sattari ¹ , mahdi mirakizadeh ²

1 - department of educational sciences, islamic azad university ardabil branch, iran
2 - Department of Educational sciences, Ardabil science and research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran

Received: 2017-08-21 Accepted : 2018-06-24 Published : 2018-02-20

Keywords: Academic Achievement, Gorgan city, fifth-grade, parents' participation,

Abstract :

This research was conducted to investigate the relationship between parents' participation with academic achievement of fifth grade elementary students in Gorgan city using descriptive correlation research method. The statistical population of the study consisted of parents of male students studying in the fifth elementary school of Gorgan, which was 2950 according to the statistics of the education department of Gorgan. From this statistical population, 320 people were selected by using the krejcie and Morgan sampling table and by cluster random sampling method. The data required for parents' participation variable was collected using Margaret standard questionnaire. The student's average was also considered as an indicator of academic achievement. The formal & content validity of the parents' participation questionnaire was approved by the experts, and the reliability of questionnaire by using Cronbach's alpha was obtained 0/93. The collective Data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics (single group T test, Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis). The results show that the significant & positive relationship between parents' participation with students academic achievement. Also, Parents' Supervision and educational' relation can predict students' academic achievement, but the Parents' Expectations component cannot predict academic achievement.