Parental Involvement and Student’s Academic Performance at the Secondary Level: A Case Study of Frontier Children’s Academy

Abstract

Parental involvement has an important role in the holistic developments of the children ranges from their personality growth to their academic development. This case study aimed to explore the role of parent's participation in the academic performance of students at the secondary level who were enrolled in Frontier Children's Academy (FCA) in Hayatabad, Peshawar. The study was quantitative in nature following descriptive research design. The population of the study comprised the boys at secondary level i.e., 557 students studying at secondary level in FCA along with their parents were taken as population of the study. The sampling for the study was carried out using simple random sampling techniques and a total of 243 students were selected as a sample of the study. The data was collected by employing a standardized questionnaire with 40 items using five points Likert scale. The researcher measured academic performance through the Grading criterion of the Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Peshawar (BISEP), i.e. A1, A, B, C, etc. Multiple Nominal Logistic Regression is applied to the data set to find the impact of Parent Participation on student academic performance. The researcher exemplifies that parental involvement in the child's academic learning provides many great opportunities for success in all subjects and improves the child's morale and attitude towards education. The results of the study show that parental contribution has a significant effect on the academic success of learners. Overall, the researcher observed that parental participation in schools is an essential predictor in the model, stating that students with more excellent parents' school involvement are less likely to get Fail. The study recommends that the school management may arrange training sessions for the parents to make them aware of modern techniques and methods of parent participation in the school activities of their children; the government may promote activities such as workshop, seminars, and training that highlight the importance of the parent's role in the academic performance of the children.