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School-Wise Differences in Parental Educational Involvement


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1 HSST, Aleemul Islam Higher Secondary School, Thrissur, Kerala, India
2 Department of Psychology, Prajyoti Niketan College, Pudukkad, Kerala, India
     

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The study was an attempt to chalk out the nature of differences in the educational involvement of parents of students belonging to different educational institutions of Kerala state. Three types of educational institutions namey, goverment, aided and private were considered for analysis. Data was collected from 261 adolescents from various higher secondary schools of Thrissur district of Kerala state. Parental involvement scale (Clinton & Hattie, 2013); Home Work Involvement Scale (Nunez et al., 2015); and Percieved Parental Autonomy Support Scale (Mageau, 2015) were used to collect the necessary data. Differences in the nature of involvement among the parents of three types of schools were calculated using ANOVA. SPSSver.23 was used for the statistical analysis. The results revealed that parents of private institutions practiced better educational involvement compared to their counterparts in aided and government institutions. Though socio-economic status of parents of private school students were comparatively higher, it need not be the only reason behind the better involvement in the academic life of their wards. The role played by school's interest in the parental participation and the related school policy might have contributed to the differences noticed under study. So study raises the need for exploring into the situtaion and formulating effective parental involvement policy in the schools.

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Parental Educational Involvement, Autonomy Support, Psychological Control, Homework Involvement.
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Authors

Jeny Rapheal
HSST, Aleemul Islam Higher Secondary School, Thrissur, Kerala, India
K. Varghese Paul
Department of Psychology, Prajyoti Niketan College, Pudukkad, Kerala, India

Abstract


The study was an attempt to chalk out the nature of differences in the educational involvement of parents of students belonging to different educational institutions of Kerala state. Three types of educational institutions namey, goverment, aided and private were considered for analysis. Data was collected from 261 adolescents from various higher secondary schools of Thrissur district of Kerala state. Parental involvement scale (Clinton & Hattie, 2013); Home Work Involvement Scale (Nunez et al., 2015); and Percieved Parental Autonomy Support Scale (Mageau, 2015) were used to collect the necessary data. Differences in the nature of involvement among the parents of three types of schools were calculated using ANOVA. SPSSver.23 was used for the statistical analysis. The results revealed that parents of private institutions practiced better educational involvement compared to their counterparts in aided and government institutions. Though socio-economic status of parents of private school students were comparatively higher, it need not be the only reason behind the better involvement in the academic life of their wards. The role played by school's interest in the parental participation and the related school policy might have contributed to the differences noticed under study. So study raises the need for exploring into the situtaion and formulating effective parental involvement policy in the schools.

Keywords


Parental Educational Involvement, Autonomy Support, Psychological Control, Homework Involvement.

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