Parental involvement as an aspect of school climate : implication for school effectiveness

M.Ed.This investigation deals with parental involvement as an aspect of school climate and its implication for school effectiveness. The theme will be investigated in terms of four chapters. In this chapter, the following aspects received the attention of the researcher: Introduction, problem statement, aims and objectives, research methodology, assumptions of study, clarification of concepts and order of the discussion. This chapter only provides an overview of the study and aspects that will receive attention of the researcher. The next chapter investigates the characteristics of an effective school based on the literature study. This will be done in order to obtain recent research findings on the characteristics of effective schools. In this research project, the researcher tried to be as objective as possible to avoid biases or distortion as well as ideological flaws when investigating literature. The continuous slavish repetition of previous research on parental involvement as an aspect of school climate and its implication to school effectiveness will be minimised when doing the literature review