Parents' involvement in their children's education

Abstract

In this paper, the nature of parental
involvement in children's education in
the early years of school is investigated,
as well as the relationship between
parental involvement and children's
learning competence. The analyses use Wave 2 data
from Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal
Study of Australian Children (LSAC) for children in
the kindergarten cohort, who were recruited at
age 4 into the study. At the time of the Wave 2 data
collection in 2006, these children were in Year 1
and 2 at school. Research findings on parental
involvement are first briefly reviewed, and then the
analyses using the LSAC data are discussed.