Was there a relationship between parental involvement in the Award Meetings and student school performance?
An important research question is whether parental involvement is related to improved school performance. Answering this research question extends the findings of an earlier study with the Cedar Band’s Parent Education and Monitoring Program (Parashonts, 2003). In Parashonts’ study, parental involvement in the award meetings was defined to include attendance by grandparents, aunts, uncles, and adult siblings. Similarly, in this study, the attendances at award meetings by immediate and extended family members (i.e. family unit) were configured so that the information could be linked to each student. An adult’s attendance for any one award meeting could be connected with multiple students, for example consider a woman whose daughter and niece were both part of the Pee’soats-eng School Monitoring project. The adult woman’s participation and learning could be applied to either her daughter or her niece, therefore her attendance was noted and linked to both students. The attendance at an aw
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