GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

The study investigated the parents’ effective partnership with school and the academic performance of the pupils in Social Studies in public primary schools in New York City. The population of this study consisted of all primary five pupils in all the public primary schools in the country. The study adopted Ex-post facto research design while simple random sampling technique was used in selecting the respondents. Data was obtained using a research questionnaire tagged “Parents’ Partnership with School Questionnaire (PPSQ)”. Data obtained from the respondents was analysed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) while Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha levels. It was concluded that there is significant relationship between reading at home and pupils’ performance in school work. Also, volunteering has significant influence on children’s’ performance in school work. It was therefore recommended that schools should create occasions where parents are invited to give talks on things that bother the child, at home and in schools.