Effects of Parental Involvement on Secondary School Students’ Mathematics achievement in Assam, India

The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of parental involvement on secondary school students‟ academic achievements in mathematics. The population consists of all 9th grade students enrolled in secondary schools situated in Karbi Anglong district of Assam. The sample survey method is chosen for the present study. Participants in this study are 900 students studying in 30 secondary schools. Students are studying in class nine in both urban and rural areas in Karbi Anglong district of Assam. There were 460 male students and 440 female students in the survey, 449 male parents and 551 female parents. Regarding cast and community 576 students are from Schedule Tribe, 54 from Schedule Cast and 270 from general category. Out of 900 student participants, 400 studied in rural area and 500 in urban areas. 443 students were from government / govt. aided schools and 457 were from private schools. Two research instruments are developed for the study, one for accessing Parental Involvement in their teenagers‟ education and the second one to access Mathematical Achievement of students. The collected data are analyzed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 22.