Worksheet #1

Andoloy, Delle Benedict

Casuncad, Zoe
Datinguinoo, Marielle
Geroza, Jay Jomar
Marcelino, Mark Joshua
Racelis, Francesca Marie
Villanueva, Colleen Daphne
11 – HUMSS 03

1.) Proposed Research Title/Topic:

Parental Involvement in the Academic Development of Honor Students

2.) Main Basis (Source) / Justification for the Proposed Topic:

According to an article of Ohio Assessments for Educators, academic development is

defined as one’s improvement when it comes to using one’s skills and knowledge to perform
well. In other words, it focuses on developing a person’s full potential. When a child learns, he
or she begins building on future success. This is why one’s academic development is essential.
Developing academically affects areas of a person’s life such as family life, work life, and the
community in which someone lives.

In a research from The Aspen Institute, students become more engaged in school when
schools fully integrate social, emotional, and academic development into education. The
evidence also shows that students with healthy social and emotional development are more
successful in the workforce and experience greater lifetime well-being. The study also stated that
academic development matters because it gives students a better chance of thriving in school,
career, and in life making it an essential part of a student’s growth. But effective social,
emotional, and academic development doesn’t happen on its own; it requires dedicated
commitment from everyone such as from families and communities.

According to the Journal of Prevention and Interconvention in the Community: A Mulitiple

Medianational Analysis (January 12, 2011) by David R. Topor, Susan P. Keane, Terri L.
Shelton, and Susan D. Calkins, Parent Involvement in a child's early education is consistently
found to be positively associated with a child's academic performance. Specifically, parents who
tend to be more involved in their child’s education have higher levels of academic performance
than for those who barely get involved. The influence of parent involvement on academic
success has not only been noted among researchers, but also among policy makers who have
integrated efforts aimed at increasing parent involvement into broader educational policy
initiatives. Also, researchers have reported that the parent-child relationship is an important
influence on a child’s academic development. Therefore, by examining specific parenting
practices that are amenable to change, such as parental, programs may be developed to increase a
child’s academic performance.

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 In articles published in 1994 and 1997, Wendy S. Grolnick and her colleagues
conceptualized three dimensions of parental involvement based on how parent-child interactions
affect students' schooling and motivation. Behavioral involvement refers to parents' public
actions representing their interest in their child's education, such as attending an open house or
volunteering at the school. Personal involvement includes parent-child interactions that
communicate positive attitudes about school and the importance of education to the child.
Cognitive/intellectual involvement refers to behaviors that promote children's skill development
and knowledge, such as reading books and going to museums. Parental involvement, according
to this theory, affects student achievement because these interactions affect students' motivation,
their sense of competence, and the belief that they have control over their success in school.

Edwin T. Tan and Wendy A Goldberg, in an article published in 2009, Parental school
involvement in relation to children's grades and adaptation to school. From an ecological
perspective, it is important to examine linkages among key settings in the child's life. The current
study focuses on parents' involvement in children's education both at school and at home.
Ninety-one families with school-aged children (91 fathers and 91 mothers) participated in a
survey study assessing the levels of parental involvement (direct at school site, homework,
extracurricular educational activities, and interpersonal involvement) and their relationship to
children's grades and to parental reports of children's anxiety about, and enjoyment of, school.
Analyses demonstrated the unique contributions made by fathers and by mothers to the explained
variance in children's grades and adaptation to school. Mothers' and fathers' school involvement
had differential associations with sons' and daughters' school-related outcomes. Support was
found for both the transactional and interactional models of parent-child socialization.
Associations between levels of parental school involvement and child outcomes were not always
positively signed. Findings highlight the complexity of parental school involvement and hold
implications for families and schools as they attempt to facilitate the types of involvement that
are high leverage points for children's academic development.

In conclusion, academic development is essential in one’s personal growth for it will be the
foundation of a person’s chances for success. Also, as stated on the first article, developing one’s
full potential may affect his or her life in general. Effective academic development does not
happen on its own. Family is a potential factor of this process which is why parents must also be
involved in this matter. Parental involvement will play a big role in this growth since based from
most researches, parents who engage more with their children’s education tend to get higher
levels of academic performance than for those who do barely do. Therefore, parental
involvement in academic development has a great impact for one to become an honor student or
successful in life

3.) Research Problem (Question Format):

How does the parental involvement affect the academic performances of honor students?

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4.) Specific Research Objectives:

 To determine the quality of a parent-child relationship.

 To analyze the involvement of the parents in the education of their students.
 To understand the environment of the students with their parents in the house.
 To describe the level of development in academic performance of honor students.

5.) Research Goal:

 Students
In the Philippine setting, there are great advantages being gained with students who
acquire good grades especially those who are included in the honor list. More
opportunities are being catered as one is to graduate school and is about to venture on the
reel world. In connection, their parents try to integrate their involvement upon achieving
the certain goal of their children having an excellent academic performance. With that,
this study will help students to understand how the parenting style works on them and
what is the reason behind it. Moreover, the importance of pushing their limits for being
educated will be perceived.
 Parents
Just like their children, parents will also benefit on this study with awareness being
raised in their involvement with their child’s education. Involvement means more
interaction with their children and more capable of understanding not only their
intellectual but also emotional needs. In addition, this will help parents to gain more
confidence in their parenting. Furthermore, parents will also be able to connect with the
environment their children are dealing with and this includes the teachers and their role in
the curriculum. Therefore, this will be easier for parents to respond to teacher’s requests
about their children.
 Educators
Being instruments in producing students who excel in learning institutions, educators
will further recognize the students’ desire to perform well and have a distinction in class.
They can serve as mediators of parents and students in order to build a stronger
relationship with the strong involvement being put in terms on the child’s education.
Also, the development of the students will be assisted. Other than the parents, the
teachers are the one who know the child for being with them often. Whenever there are
problems, it can be easily addressed.

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Source/s:

Tan, E. and Goldberg, W. (2009). Parental school involvement in relation to children's grades
and adaptation to school. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/
article/pii/S0193397308001615

Topor, D., Keane, S., Shelton, T., and Calkins, S. (2010). Parent involvement and student
academic performance: A multiple mediational analysis. Retrieved from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3020099/

Grolnick, W., Benjet, C., Kurowski, C., and Apopstoleris, N. (1997). "Predictors of Parent
Involvement in Children's Schooling." . Journal of Educational Psychology 89:538–548.
Retrieved from https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2309/Parental-Involvement-
in-Education.html

The Aspen Institute. (2020). Social, emotional, and academic development is the integration of
social and emotional development with academic learning in K-12 education. Retrieved
from https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/national-commission-on-social-emotional-
and-academic-development/social-emotional-academic-development/

Clint, F. (2020). Academic Development: Definition, Importance & Related Factors. Retrieved
from https://study.com/academy/lesson/academic-development-definition-importance-
related-factors.html