Parental Involvement and Student Achievement: A Meta-analysis of Publications in the Scopus Database

Abstract

Family is one of the external motivational factors in the student education process. This study aims to analyze the effect size correlation between parental involvement and student achievement. This research uses quantitative method with meta-analysis approach. The study subjects were 27 publications of relevant research results that discussed the variables of parental involvement and student achievement. Research data collection is carried out through documentation techniques by collecting research publications with criteria including publications that must come from Scopus indexed journals. In addition, the sample of publications must come from publications of at least the last five years. The data analysis technique used is a meta-analysis that focuses on information on effect size, standard error and sample size in each of the selected research results as samples. Through a meta-analysis with a random effects approach, this study concludes that there is a significant positive correlation between parental involvement and student achievement. In addition, this study shows that there is no potential for publication bias in the relevant studies, so it can be explained that the potential for bias is relatively small.