Parental Involvement, Learning Motivation, and Science Achievement Among Young Adolescent Children

• In Event: 47.096 - MTCC Roundtable Session 20
  In Roundtable Session: 47.096-6 - Academic Impacts of Parental Involvement, Motivation, and Arts Education

Abstract

The primary goal of this study was to examine the way in which parental involvement, specifically parents’ educational expectations and parent-child communication, are related directly to children’s science achievement, and indirectly, through their perceived academic competence and academic effort. Using data from the Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY), the sample included 3,116 seventh graders (1,621 male and 1,495 female students) and their parents. Structural regression analysis indicated that parents’ educational expectations and parent-child communication can influence the development of children’s academic beliefs and efforts, which accounts further for their science achievement.

Authors

• Yue Zhang, Santa Clara University

• Eunjoo Jung, Syracuse University