EFFECT OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG SCHOOL GOING ADOLESCENTS OF PURULIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

The main purpose of the study is to know the parental involvement of school going adolescents'. To know the level of students' academic performance is another one. The difference between parental involvement and the difference between academic performances of students come from different area. The study also investigate that the relationship between parental involvement and academic performance. The researcher has used descriptive type survey method in the present study. Government and private school students and their parents have considered the source of sample. In the present study Accidental sampling procedure has adopted to collect data. Data was collected from 179 secondary schools students (class 9th and class 10th) and their parents with the help of ‘Parental Involvement Measuring Questionnaire (PIMQ)' and students' last examination marks as ‘academic performance scale'. The descriptive and inferential statistical and underlying relationship will be found out by computing appropriate statistics with the help of excel sheet. On the bases of the study we can say that there is a positive correlation between parental involvement and academic performance of school going Adolescents. Parental involvement in urban area is comparatively high then rural area and urban students have more academic performance. Also found that Bengali medium school adolescents' academic performances are comparatively high and boys are more achiever. The findings of the study are implied in the government and private school adolescents and their parents to know about the effect of parental involvement, on students' academic performance in West Bengal.