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Understanding Parental Happiness: The Role of Participation in Education

This ongoing research explores the factors contributing to parental happiness regarding their child's education. Analyzing data from 11,122 parents and 317 principals, we assess predictors of satisfaction, including socio-demographic elements and parental participation. Key questions focus on overall school satisfaction, communication, and decision-making transparency. Our findings highlight significant variance in satisfaction levels across different school contexts, emphasizing the need for effective representative participation and communication strategies. This work aims to delineate how involvement influences happiness among parents, particularly in diverse communities.

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Understanding Parental Happiness: The Role of Participation in Education

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  1. What makes parents happy? And has participation got anything to do with it? Steve Powell steve@promente.org

  2. Let’s cut to the chase

  3. This is work in progress, not a finished presentation!

  4. Data • Individual level • Parents N=11122 • With Roma booster sample • School level • Parent representatives (means per school) • Principals N=317 • Urban/rural, exclusion • Means of parent data

  5. What are we predicting • Parental satisfaction • General satisfaction (10 questions): means • The child is happy at school ... • My school is a safe place for the child • The teaching is of high quality • I am / we are treated with respect by the school .. • Satisfaction with decision-making (2 questions) • Satisfaction with communication (2 questions)

  6. Predictors • Individual-level • Socio-demographic • Wealth • Mother’s education • Roma / non-Roma • Attitude to participation • Perception of being invited to participate • Participation behaviour • School level • Urban/rural • Means of all the above • (Parent representatives) • Principals – attitudes, behaviour

  7. About the countries • Data are weighted inside countries for urban/rural and region • Sample not weighted for country size

  8. Between-school differences are large

  9. School-level share of variance in outcomes • General satisfaction: 38% • Satisfaction with decision-making: 35% • Satisfaction with communication: 32%

  10. Rocket science? • Multi-level models • Using the package nlmefor the statistics program R • Models are of the form: • lme(outcomes.gen.m~likeSchool+ etc etc ,random=~1|school,na.action=na.omit)

  11. Comparison of four modelspredicting general satisfaction with education Other majority/minority is not consistently important

  12. Comparison of four modelspredicting satisfaction with opportunity to influence education

  13. Parents’ satisfaction with their representatives: Know my representative well Reps & council are active Reps & council are efective ... Big slice

  14. Let’s look at the individual parents

  15. Dots are individual parents. All parents in one school are in the same column representing how well they on average know the reps. Height in the graph represents their individual satisfaction with their child’s education

  16. Red dots are parents who are individually happiest with the education; blue are least happy

  17. Same, but broken down by country

  18. Same, but showing Roma and non-Roma parents.

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