The impact of family on school achievement

Abstract

Parents have a significant role in children education. Children maintain their knowledge and habits in school life and in the family environment throughout their lives. These behaviors and attitudes acquired in the family environment directly affect students’ school success. In this study, the tradition of parents reading, democratic attitude, training, support, comparison, incompatibility, parent-school relationship, educational status, income levels, and the number of children have been compared. Survey method among quant tat ve research methods and demograph c nformat on scale developed by the researcher were used n the study. The third grade comprised a sample of 307 students from 9 schools determined by random sampling from primary schools in Northern Cyprus. It concluded that parents ‘level of education, income level, divorce and having three children directly affected children’s school success accaording to reading tradition, democratic attitude, educational support, comparison, lack of livelihood and the state of the parents’ relationship with the school variables.