Enhancing Academic Performance through Parental Involvement Strategies

Abstract

This research aimed to enhance academic performance in Science through the conduct of several school activities in which the parents are invited to participate. The participants were students of Grade 9 Section 2 at Esteban Abada High School in Manila. The majority of the participants belong to the 15-17 age range. Parental involvement strategies such as giving certificates to top performing students in the class during card distribution, showcasing performance-based outputs in Science on a monthly basis and showing of a video on selected class experiences were done to encourage the parents to come to school and be involved in the activities of the students. Results showed that these interventions facilitated parental involvement. Generally, positive feedback information from the parents were elicited and promoted better understanding of their child's performance in school. A significant difference in the pre-testing and post testing which indicated improvement in academic performance was revealed in the study. Likewise, parents became more involved in home-based and school-based activities because of the conduct of the various strategies which have implicitly enhanced performance in science.