THE ROLE OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Project – THE ROLE OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Parental involvement, defined as motivated parental attitudes and behaviours intended to effect children’s educational well-being. It is a multidimensional and bi-directional construct (Christenson, 2004; Fantuzzo, Tighe, & Childs, 2000) that has been…