Effects of Parental Education on Children's Achievements

INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF
PARENTAL EDUCATIONAL LEVEL
ON CHILDREN'S ACHIEVEMENTS
By: (Name)

Abstract
• The research question focuses on the parental education level and find out how it
would impact their children’s academic achievement.
• The aim of this study is to discover the relationship of parents’ education level and
children’s academic achievement.
• The aim of has been achieved using a pre- collected data that has been obtained
from the internet.
• The analyses that have been done to achieve the aim of the study are: Descriptive
statistics analysis, graphical analysis, Analysis of variance (NAOVA), correlation and
regression analysis
• The analysis has revealed that a parent’s level of education has a significant
influence on their academic achievement.

Background information
• Education is an essential factor for being successful in our current society (Coleman ,1968)
• The level of education decides human being’s opportunity, social status, life standard, and even
marriage.
• In a family, children learn different aspects from their parents.
• Parents work as a “model” for their children that they would mimic what their parents do, and
apply those reactions to their own real life.
• This leads to the importance of parental education level.
• As the parents are well-educated, their children would have impact in a good way
• The research question focuses on the parental education level and find out how it would impact
their children’s academic achievement.
• The aim of this study is to discover the relationship of parents’ education level and children’s
academic achievement.

Data and Variables
• The data was obtained from
http://roycekimmons.com/tools/generated_data/exams
• This data set includes scores from three exams and a variety of personal,
social, and economic factors that have interaction effects upon them.
• The average in the three subjects have been used for analysis
• The other variable is the parents’ level of education: Associates’ degree,
masters’ degree, bachelors’ degree, high school and some college.