Developing a parent-school partnership model for enhancing parent participation in the schools of the Daughters of Charity

• Main Author: Gatongay, Purita E.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2002
• Subjects: Educational Leadership
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/1166
• Institution: De La Salle University

To determine the nature of parent participation, mean was computed. To estimate the degree of relationship between parent- and school-related factors to parent participation in school the chi-square test of independence and the Somer's d test of prediction, were computed. Frequencies and percentages were also computed for qualitative variables. Results of the study show that participation is demonstrated in Type I, Basic Obligations of Parent, Type II, Basic Obligations of School, and Type III, Parents' Involvement in the Learning Activities of Children at Home. Parents participate in activities that are either home- or school-based and are skills-related. School-related factors, Leadership style of School Officials, Teachers' Practices, and School-Sponsored are predictive factors for parents' participation in school activities. Based on the results of the study, a general model of parent-school partnership for enhancing parents' involvement in school activities has been developed. It consists of four important elements, namely: actual parents' involvement under Epstein's typology, predictive factors, critical activities that need to be enhanced, and intervention programs/strategies. This dissertation examines parents' participation in school with the end in view of developing a model for enhancing parent participation. It adopted the five typologies of parents' involvement developed by Epstein (1982), namely 1) Basic Obligations of Parents, Basic Obligation of Schools, 3) Parents' involvement at School, 4) Parents' Involvement in Learning Activities of Children at Home, and 5) Parents' Involvement in Governance. Data was gathered from parents of students of the 17 schools managed by the Daughters of Charity in the Philippines, and the combined faculty and administrators. For data collection, the study used self-administered questionnaire. Two major correlates were examined, namely 1) parent-related factors which included educational attainment, occupation, parents' expectations for their children, and number of children enrolled in school, and 2) school-related factors which constituted leadership practices of school officials, teacher's practices, and school sponsored activities.