Parental Involvement during the Transition to High School

Abstract

In this article, the authors conducted a study to discover what types of parent involvement are effective as students make the transition to high school.This study also aimed to elaborate on the role parents play in connecting their children to desirable peer networks during this transition.In-home interviews were conducted with 26 students as well as their parents before and after entering high school.The successfulness of the students’ transition was evaluated in terms of their final grades as well as the number of credits earned and their school attendance.They identified five forms of parental involvement that helped students succeed: monitoring the teen’s academic and social life, evaluating the information obtained about the teen, helping the teen with schoolwork, creating positive peer networks for the teen, and participating directly in the school.

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