THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AND STUDENT MOTIVATION

Abstract

Parental involvement and student motivation have been scientifically shown to have a variety educational benefits they can offer in education. However, students’ motivation as an academic outcome of parental involvement has only recently been investigated. The purpose of this article is to show how parental involvement is related to student motivation. This purpose of this research is to see whether or not there is no relationship between parental involvement and student motivation. A sample of 113 parents and 113 students were our respondents at Guilon Elementary school. A Quantitative design and Questionnaire as a research instrument were used to collect data for the study. Data analysis was conducted by employing statistical tools (mean and standard deviation) to examine the level of parental involvement and student motivation in education. Based on the gathered data, the analysis showed no significant Relationship between Parental Involvement and Student Motivation. It is recommended from the study that parents may continue to support to motivate their children, although the result revealed that there is no significant in student motivation. It also recommended that the future researchers’ conduct the same study in different schools, probably in the Island Garden City of Samal, to confirm the effectiveness of this study and to verify the result; the future researchers should administer the same research in a more extended period in finding enough evidence.