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ABSTRACT
The present study focuses on the relationship between parents' socioeconomic status and parental involvement in their children's education at home. This study uses eighty students of Malay ethnic origin who are studying in one of the best performance-based National Schools in the state of Kedah, Malaysia as a sample. A questionnaire was used to obtain quantitative data related to the parents' socio-economic background and their involvement strategies in their children's education at home. The results indicate that most Malay parents, regardless of their socioeconomic background show a high degree of involvement in most of the parental involvement strategies at home to ensure their children's educational outcomes. In addition, correlation analysis indicates that the relationship between Malay parents' socioeconomic status and parental involvement strategies at home is not significant in almost all the strategies adopted by the parents.
Keywords: Malay parents, parental involvement, socioeconomic, education, home
ABSTRAK
Kajian ini memfokuskan hubungan antara sosioekonomi ibu bapa dalam pendidikan anak di rumah. Kajian ini menggunakan 80 murid berbangsa Melayu yang belajar di salah sebuah Sekolah Kebangsaan yang berpencapaian tinggi di Kedah, Malaysia sebagai sampel. Soal selidik digunakan untuk mendapatkan data kuantitatif daripada ibu bapa murid berkaitan latar belakang sosioekonomi ibu bapa dan strategi penglibatan mereka dalam pendidikan anak. Hasil kajian mendapati bahawa tanpa mengambil kira latar belakang sosioekonomi, kebanyakan ibu bapa Melayu menunjukkan darjah penglibatan yang tinggi dalam kebanyakan strategi penglibatan ibu bapa dalam pendidikan anak di rumah demi kecemerlangan pencapaian pendidikan anak mereka. Tambahan lagi, analisis korelasi menunjukkan bahawa hubungan antara sosioekonomi ibu bapa Melayu dan penglibatan ibu bapa dalam pendidikan anak di rumah adalah tidak signifikan dalam hampir semua strategi penglibatan ibu bapa.
Kata kunci: Ibu bapa Melayu, penglibatan ibu bapa, sosioekonomi, pendidikan, rumah
INTRODUCTION
In general, every parent obviously would want their children to perform well at school. However, children's educational achievement does not fully depend on the teachers' efforts at school to instil skills, attitudes and behaviours which could transform them to become successful students. Parents do play an important role in providing educational resources necessary for their academic success. Hence, parental involvement at home refers to the ways the children are managed by the parents in the home environment in order for them to improve their ability to succeed in school...