Factors Affecting Parental Involvement in Education: The Analysis of Literature

Abstract

This study examines the factors affecting parental involvement by evaluating and analysing literature about parental involvement in education. It also answers the questions: a) What does parental involvement mean? and 2) Why is parental involvement important? In this article more than five hundreds literatures related to the factors affecting parental involvement were evaluated and analysed. The result of the analysis of literature showed that there are many factors influencing parental involvement or the level of parental involvement and these factors can be parent related, school related or student related.