Philippine E-Journals

Parental Engagement and Nurturance on the Reading Performance of Intermediate Pupils in Sta. Cruz Elementary School

Serlita Francia Aranda

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

The study aimed to determine the effects of parental engagement and nurturance on the reading performance of intermediate pupils in Sta. Cruz Elementary School, School Year 2020-2021. The respondents of the study were the 370 Intermediate pupils consisting of 118 Grade 4 pupils, 78 Grade 5 pupils and 174 Grade 6 pupils who are included in the Blended Learning modality in the said school. They were described in terms of their age, sex, sibling position, number of children in the family, monthly family income and parents’ educational attainment. Descriptive survey research design was utilized in this study. The first research instrument is a researcher made questionnairechecklist to determine the extent of effects of parental engagement and nurturance on the reading performance of the pupil-respondents with respect to inferential, critical thinking, assimilation and comprehension. The other set is a parallel objective type of test consisted of 40 items. This was used to determine the level of reading performance of the respondents. The study revealed that the pupil-respondents are mostly 8-10 years old; predominantly males; are first and second born child and mostly belong to families with two children in the family. A higher number of the respondents belong to family with monthly income below ?10,000 and whose father and mother are mostly college undergraduates. Parental engagement and nurturance moderately affects the reading performance of the pupils with respect to inferential, critical thinking, assimilation and comprehension. Sex, sibling position, number of children in the family, monthly family income, father’s educational attainment and mother’s educational attainment are not significant on the effects of parental engagement and nurturance on the reading performance of pupils. However, when grouped by mother’s educational attainment with respect to comprehension is significant. Pupils have a satisfactory reading performance as revealed by the results of their Reading test. The test on the significant relationship between the extent of effects of parental engagement and nurturance with respect to inferential, critical thinking, assimilation and comprehension and their performancedo not relate.