PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AS CORRELATE OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: A STUDY OF TEACHER TRAINEES

Academic achievement is of paramount importance particularly in
the present socio-economic and cultural content. It is the activity, which is
accomplished especially superior ability, special efforts and great value. It
plays significant role in almost all aspects of human life. It has assumed
enormous importance in view of its practical value. There are various
social, cultural, administrative and financial constraints responsible to
effect academic achievement. Measuring academic performance of
teacher trainees is challenging since student performance is product of
cognitive and non-cognitive constructs which includes socio-economic,
psychological and environmental factors. Present paper has been based
on the study conducted on teacher trainees. Parental involvement hasbeen studied by using parental involvement scale by Chopra and Sahoo
(2005).The findings reveal that parental involvement has a significant
positive impact on the academic achievement of the teacher trainees
irrespective to their gender.