Parental Involvement, Facilitation, Expectations and Their Relationship to Academic Performance

Abstract

Among other factors, academic performance is affected by teacher and student motivation, individual student ability, school climate and parental participation in their students’ activities. The purpose of this study was to find out if there was any significant relationship between academic performance and parents’ expectation, family relationship, family socialization and parenting styles of secondary school students in Nandi Central District. Descriptive-correlational design was employed with three hundred and seventy eight (378) respondents participating. A self constructed questionnaire was used to collect data. To test the reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach’s alpha coefficient reliability test was carried out giving an alpha coefficient of 0.820.This study reveals that there is a significant inverse relationship between parental involvement and students’ academic performance. It is also realized that parental facilitation has a significant inverse relationship with students’ academic performance. The relationship between academic performance and parental expectation was significant. Finally, there was inverse significant relationship between academic performance and students’ relationship with their father.