The Study On The Effects Of Parental Involvement On Elementary Students' Academic Achievement

The family not only provides basic living security to children, but also has a far-reaching effect on the development of children, because the family is the first school to children, and parents are the first teachers to the children. Foreign countries have made fruitful efforts on the"parental involvement"and achieved marked achievement.Most researches in this field focuse on the effects of parental involvement on students'achievement. Empirical researches for decades have proved that the parental involvement is multidimensional, including parental involvement in school and parental involvement in family, and reached a common conclusion that parental involvement in family has significant effects on students'achievement, while parental involvement in school has no effects or slight effects on students'achievement. The foreign research considers that parental involvement in school will promote the civilization of the school, which in turn improving students'achievement. Most researches achievement mentioned above reached are in western cultural background. We do not know whether it is workable in China, so the study tries to assess the parental involvement suitability for Chinese parents and students, and how it influences Chinese students'achievement. It is still a virgin field in studying parental involvement with empirical research in China. Without a doubt that the study will propel the theory of parental involvement development in China, as well as provide theory basis for parental involvement, which will make parental involvement in students'education sense.With descriptive statistic, factor analysis and structural equation model, we achieve the conclusion as followings:1.The family with higher SES will have better communication between parents and children, which enhance children's academic achievement perfectly.2.The parents ,who have higher SES, will more actively contact with teachers, while less take part in school activities. 3.The factor of SES does not influence parent aspiration, which has indirect effect on children's academic achievement.4.The SES has indirect effect on home supervision through communication, while home supervision does not influence children's achievement.5.The attitude of teacher has significant and direct effect on the rate of communication between teacher and parents, which have negative effect on children's achievement.6.The attitude of teacher has indirect effect on communication between parents contact with teacher and parents take part in school activity, both of which have no effect on children's academic achievement.There are several proposals concerning the conclusion mentioned above were raised:1.Parents should enhance their awareness of participation in children's education, caring the development of their children and communicating with them. Parents should cooperate with teachers and promote children's development with teacher.2.School staff should change their concept on parental involvement, encouraging parents take part in school education through parents'meeting, home visiting .School should also encourage parental involvement in the running of school, which is good for parents to build the sense of ownership.3.It is necessary for government to establish law and regulation to guarantee the parental involvement running effectively, inducing parents to take part in students education.