not a far reach to hypothesis that there is a direct relationship between parental involvement and their child's academic achievement. This is not to state that there is a causation effect, that is that one causes the other, but that there is a relationship between the two.MethodParticipants The study will use the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) as a format guideline but will obviously vary a great degree. NELS:88 participants were 14,673 young adults from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS: 88), a study developed, administered, and researched by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). NELS:88 is the most recent and comprehensive study of U.S. secondary and post-secondary educational development processes, thus another reason for the format usage. NELS:88 began with surveys of eighth graders in 1988 and had a Second follow-up questionnaire and a Third follow-up both for the student subjects and for the parent subjects. This present study will also have the same general format. The six different questionnaires to be used in this study are not available for this proposal but the actual format and contents will be briefly discussed. The subjects will be eighth graders currently attending school; this is where the survey will be administered and their parent/guardian who will receive the survey through the mail. An attempted 15,000 students will be surveyed, Initially at the end of their eighth school year, the Second follow-up questionnaire at the end of their tenth school year and the Third follow-up at the end of their twelfth school year. Waiting for the end of the school year is to hopefully get information that is most recently applicable. Surveying at the beginning of the school year seems as though it would not give the study the most reliable data. There would be no grades to study and since mos...
