| Summary: | Few studies have examined how parents are involved in secondary students' education
and no known research has looked at secondary students' perceptions of their parents'
involvement in their education. In this study the amount of parent involvement and the related
level of satisfaction associated to that involvement was investigated among 87 students in grades
ten, 11, and 12 at three high schools in British Columbia. Participants were surveyed using a
modified version of the Home, School, and Family Partnership (HSFP) survey for high school
students (Epstein, Connors, & Salinas, 1993) and a survey of satisfaction that was developed
specifically for use in this study. The results indicated that the HSFP-S was a reasonably valid
and moderately reliable measure of parent involvement for the discrete types of parent
involvement that it represented. The four factor identified were: Communication: Home-School,
Communication: Parent-Child, Requests for Information and Support at School, and Requests
for Information and Support at Home. Participants reported higher amounts of Communication:
Home-School than any other type. There was a significant effect of family status and grade
associated to amount of parent involvement for certain types of activities. Further, participants
reported feeling satisfied with the current amounts for both communication type parent
involvement factors but showed a general trend that as amount of involvement went up, level of
satisfaction went down. There was no significant relation between level of satisfaction and the
other types of parent involvement. Further research is needed to determine how present models
of parent involvement apply to students at the secondary school level. === Education, Faculty of === Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of === Graduate
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