Impact of Parent’s Education and Involvement on Children Performance in Southern Punjab Pakistan

Muhammad Akbar Ali Shah, Mahreen Anwar

Abstract


This study is conducted to examine the influence of parent’s education and their involvement on children life in various ways. For this study a survey was conducted in Southern Punjab by using a questionnaire. The respondents for this study were parents from 1500 households. All the analysis has been carried out on SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). The collected data is explored using frequency count, percentage for variables.Chi-square test is applied to test the significance of parent’s education and involvement on children education. The results of this study indicate that parent’s education and involvement have a significant impact on children performance. Parents are the role model for their children. Therefore, to let the children perform better parents should be educated and focused on children performance.


Keywords


Parent’s education, Parent’s involvement, Children performance

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