THE EFFECT OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT ON STUDENTS’ ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENT OF PUBLIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

The principal objective of this study is to know the effect of parental involvement on students’ achievement of public junior high school at SMPN 10 Bantimurung. This research used a quantitative research method. The population of this study is SMPN 10 Bantimurung second grade students total of number was 95 students, and the sample was eighth grade (8.3), which consists of 30 students. The questionnaire and documentation was used in this study. To determine parental involvement score the researcher used a likert-type questionnaire with four response options: Always, Often, Ever, and Never. And documentation was used to determine students’ achievement score that taken from students' English final examinations from the previous semester after they had completed the teaching learning process in English. The result of questionnaire showed that parental involvement was categorized into high level and students’ achievement score was categorized into enough level. The data was analyzed used Person Product Moment Formula to know the correlation between parental involvement and students’ achievement. The writer found that there was no correlation or no effect between parental involvement and students’ achievement in learning English among the eighth grade class 8.3 at SMPN 10 Bantimurung.