Employment of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and its Implications on the Academic Performance of Their Children

Nemesia Karen E. Arlan

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Yasmina G. Wingo

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Joeti Shrestha

Lyceum of the Philippines University - Graduate Studies

August 10, 2008

Abstract:

This study attempts to analyze the impact of employment of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) on the academic performance of their children. One specific goal for this study is to awaken, encourage and challenge the government through the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to formulate policies and programs (if none) as early as now and strengthen them if there are existing policies and programs in accordance to the needs of the respondents with the assistance and close collaboration of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). This study also seeks to generate awareness to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) regarding the above mentioned problem and in formulating better programs which would also assist distressed children with similar circumstances worldwide.

This study is conducted to seek answers to the following questions:
1. What is the personal profile of the respondents as to sex, age, and personality traits?
2. What are the concerns faced by OFW children studying in universities within Intramuros?
3. What are the factors that affect the academic performance of OFW children in terms of:
a. Economic Status of the family
b. Employment Status
c. Social Status
d. Marital Status
4. How do the respondents assess their relationship towards their parents working overseas?

he Effect Of Parental Involvement On Academic Achievement by Adrianes Pinantoan, informEd
The influence of parental involvement on a student’s academic success should not be underestimated.
While brain power, work ethic, and even genetics all play important roles in student achievement, the determining factor comes down to what kind of support system she has at home.
Students with two parents operating in supportive roles are 52% more likely to enjoy school and get straight A’s than students whose parents are disengaged with what’s going on at school. This is especially the case during the earliest years of schooling, in Kindergarten through the 5th grade, when students with active parents are almost twice as likely to succeed. Once students enter middle school, the effect diminishes slightly—possibly because they are maturing during this time— but there is still a 22% difference.
The data shows, predictably, that having one parent involved is better than having none at all. Interestingly, as far as behavior is concerned—being held back or expelled— having a supportive mother makes a slightly more positive difference than having a supportive father. Having a supportive father, however, leads to slightly higher grades than having a supportive mother.
Just as there seems to be critical period for parental support in terms of general academic success (K-5), there is also a critical period for parental support with regard to “school readiness.” Before a student enters primary school, her parents have a huge influence on how well she will perform. Did her parents introduce her to the alphabet? Did they read to her every night? Did they teach her to count? It appears that a parent’s level of involvement in school readiness correlates significantly with that parent’s own educational attainment.
Parents with advanced degrees are 3.5 times as likely as parents without high school degrees to teach their children the alphabet, 2.4 times more likely to teach them to count to 20, 1.8 times as likely to teach them how to write their first name, and 2.8 times more likely to read to them daily.
Even the difference in involvement between parents with advanced degrees and parents with bachelor’s degrees hovers around 10%. Almost without exception, parents at each successive level of education send their children to school better prepared than parents who are less educated. This suggests just how delicate beginnings can be in a child’s educational development, and just how important it is for less educated parents to try to be more involved.
Another key to sustained academic success is progressing through each grade level with confidence and mastery. But even if the parental support is there, financial setbacks can pose serious problems. Between 1996 and 2007, the percentage of “low-income” students typically held back a grade reached 25%, while the percentage of “non-poor” students remained low and relatively constant.
This data reflects the unfortunate reality that successful adults are overwhelmingly found to emerge from supportive middle or upper class families. For more information on this effect, dubbed “concerted cultivation,” see social scientist Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success (2008).
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Research Questions and Variables. Most research questions in the seven articles reviewed, dealt with some aspect of parental involvement as well as some aspect of student success. The parental involvement may have been measured by how a parent helps a student on homework, how a parent communicates with the school, how the relationship and family rules are within the home environment. The student success portion may have been measured by grades, self-efficacy, engagement, motivation, etc.
Factors That Affect the Academic Performance of Students Who's Parents Are Abroad
CHAPTER 2

Review of Related Literature and Studies

The researchers are conducting a study on the academic performances of students whose parents are working abroad. But to conduct this study the researchers researched on the definitions of these terms.

Academic Performance and its Definitions:

Education is one of the fundamental needs that every person from this humanity must acquire and register into. As stated and defined in the Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge (2000), societies have sought to educate their people to produce goods and services, to respond effectively and creatively to their world, and to satisfy their curiosity and aesthetic impulses. To achieve any of these objectives people need to acquire reliable knowledge and to think systematically. Likewise, Education is one of people’s only sources of survival and all human beings are allowed and encourage obtaining such.
According to the Oxford Dictionary, academic performances are the performances of students within an academic year concerning with their studies particularly in English, Math and Science the major subjects in schools and universities. Academic performance is also about coming out on top in argument, the contours of which (intellectual ,effective ,performance) are shaped by institutions in which we work and in which we have worked since we were young children. And this returns us to the classroom, which, as it turns out, is the most important setting in which we worked for, without early and continued success there, a child would indeed be left behind.
On the other hand, “In educational institutions, success is measured by academic performance or how well a student meets standards by local government and the intuition itself.” To evaluate the performance of students, teachers set out homeworks, oral tests, written exams and more activities that the institution could give. As what bell had stated, teachers also need to identify both the positive and negative...
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