10.1177/0013124502239392ARTICLEEDUCATION AND URBAN SOCIETY / February 2003Jeynes / EFFECTS OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT A META-ANALYSIS The Effects of Parental Involvement on Minority Children’s Academic Achievement

A meta-analysis was undertaken, including 21 studies, to determine the impact of parental in-volvement on the academic achievement of minority children. Statistical analyses were under-taken to determine the overall effects of parental involvement obtained for each study as well as specific components of parental involvement. Four different measures of academic achievement were used. The possible differing effects of parental involvement by gender and socioeconomic status were also considered. The results indicate that the impact of parental involvement overall is significant for all the minority groups under study. For all groups, parental involvement, as a whole, affected all the academic variables under study by at least two tenths of a standard devia-tion unit. However, among some of the races, certain aspects of parental involvement had a greater impact than did others. The significance of these results is discussed