Abstract

• The general objective of the research is to study primary level principals’ practices on parental involvement. The specific objectives are to examine primary level principals’ practices on parental involvement and to reveal the variations of primary level principals’ practices on parental involvement according to their demographic data. Mixed method was used in this study. The samples for quantitative study are 170 primary level principals from Eastern District, Yangon Region by using cluster sampling method. For qualitative study, 8 primary level principals were interviewed by using purposive sampling method. The reliability coefficient (Cronbach’s alpha) for primary level principals’ practices on parental involvement questionnaire was 0.84. Descriptive Statistics, Independent Samples t Test, and One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used. Primary level principals practised to a moderate extent in overall parental involvement. With respect to gender, there was a significant difference between male and female. With regard to age groups, primary level principals between the age groups of 27-37 years and 49-59 years were statistically significant different in ‘Communicating’, ‘Learning at Home’ and ‘Decision Making’. Based on qualitative study, although primary level principals practised parental involvement, they had struggle conditions that make delay for implementing their practices. Since this study found that there were weakness in “Volunteering” practices, all stakeholders should support volunteer activities in order to involve parents as volunteers.