A Review of How Parental Involvement Influences Student Academic Achievement

Abstract

Parental involvement is a key factor influencing students’ academic performance and is of great significance for improving educational quality. By reviewing relevant domestic and international literature and drawing on both classical research and meta-analytic evidence, this paper analyzes the overall connection linking parental engagement to scholastic performance, the various forms of parental participation and their differential effects, as well as the universality and differences of parental involvement in different educational stages and cultural backgrounds.The review confirms that there is a general positive correlation between parental involvement and students’ academic achievements, but the effect is moderated by the type of involvement, educational stage and cultural background. The paper also focuses on analyzing the differentiated ways of participation between involved parents and controlling parents in the two subjects of mathematics and reading and analyzing the underlying reasons. Finally, it points out the shortcomings of current research in terms of interdisciplinary coverage and cultural mechanism, and proposes the direction of strengthening longitudinal tracking and research on homeschool cooperation in digital contexts, in order to provide theoretical references and practical guidance for homeschool collaborative intervention.