The Influence of Parental Involvement Classified by Parents Demographic Factors and Current Eduction Policy on Student Achievement in High School in Nong Chok District, Bangkok, Thailand

Yosai Saralee, Agus Pramusinto

2016 | Tesis | S2 Magister Administrasi Publik

ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to study the influence of parental involvement on student achievement in high school in Nong Chok District, Bangkok, Thailand, to compare level of parental involvement on student achievement classified by demographic factors, and to analyze the influence of parental involvement and education policy on student achievement. The population in this study are parents whom their children are currently studying in public high school in Nong Chok district, Bangkok, Thailand. The sampling process was determined by using non-random sampling method. The calculated sampling size was 210 samples. Data were collected through the structured questionnaire which reliability was 0.88. The statistic used in the research were the descriptive statistics (percentage, mean, and Standard Deviation), One-way ANOVA, and Multiple Linear Regression. The result indicated that 60.5 percent of respondents were mothers, married (79.5 percent), had received high school or equivalent (51.4 percent), work as an employee (43.8 percent), earn below or equal to 150,000 Baht per year (44.3 percent), and work less than or equal to 8 hours per day (71.9 percent). The hypotheses testing showed that parents often involve in student education. Type of parents had a statistically significant influence on student achievement at 0.05 level. The results of multiple linear regression analysis found that education policy had significantly affected student achievement at 0.01 level, while parental involvement had no statistically significant relationship with student achievement. Moreover, the estimated equation can predict the student achievement at 28.4%. Keywords: parental involvement, demographic factors, education policy, and student achievement.

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