The Effects of Parent Involvement on Kindergarten Children's Reading Achievement: A Multilevel Analysis

Chae, SooEun (채수은); Jennifer Koran

The Effects of Parent Involvement on Kindergarten Children's Reading Achievement: A Multilevel Analysis

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2017, 30(4), pp.49-69
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

Chae, SooEun ¹, Jennifer Koran ²

¹강릉원주대학교
²Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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ABSTRACT

Prior research on the relationship between parent involvement in schools and children's academic achievement has been inconclusive, finding some positive effects and some negative effects of parent involvement. This study investigated the effects of parent involvement on kindergarten children's reading achievement. Working from a conceptual basis in Bronfenbrenner's Ecological System Theory (1998), the present study distinguishes between the effect of an individual child's parent involvement at home and at school and the collective effect of a school atmosphere in which parents are actively involved in kindergarten students and their parents. The study data (N=3,142) were drawn from Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Class-Kindergarten version. A Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) technique was used to uncover both the effects of individual parent activities and collective parent activities. The major finding resulted from HLM analyses was that while there is no significant effect of an individual child's parent involvement at school, a school atmosphere in which parents are actively and collectively involved mitigates the effect of children's prior achievement on their reading achievement at the end of kindergarten year. That is, in educational environments characterized by high collective parent involvement, kindergarten children are more likely to end their school year with higher reading achievement compared to the start of the year.

KEYWORDS

collective parenting, Kindergarten, reading, community

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