Impact of Parent Education and Transformative Leadership Role on Children’s Academic Performance
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Abstract
This study is concerned to explore the impacts of a parental education and
transformative leadership role on children’s academic performance. After
delivering a brief literature review, study support the significance and
implications of an educated family, availability of modern facilities, and
transformative leadership role to become a productive to meet the educational
goals and it also impacts the educational policies and education professionals.
Numerous research items assist to measure the impacts of parents’ education,
modern accessible modern facilities, and motivating and visional leadership
on children’s academic outcome and development. In this study Selfadministered
questionnaires were designed and random sampling was
collected from three public Degree colleges in Sindh, Pakistan. The data
analysis was carried out by means of descriptive and inferential statistics in
which Kendall’s tau C tests and Kruskal- Wallis H-test were used to meet the
hypotheses tests. The findings of the study support the positive association of
parent education, convenience of modern facilities, and motivating and
visional role on their children’s academic performance. In demographic
characteristics respondents’ different background was encircled and a broad
influence of parent education and leadership on children academic
performance was supported in a wide literature
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