Banca de DEFESA: SAMUEL COELHO DOS SANTOS

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FAMILY AT SCHOOL IN STUDENTS' LEARNING: AN EVALUATION OF THE EDUCATION AGENT PROJECT IN THE CITY OF SALVADOR/BA

Academic performance; Parental Participation;Education Agent; IDEB

The influence of parents on academic performance has been the subject of studies for several decades by several renowned researchers. There is empirical evidence that has so much influence when associated with the presence of parents in the school environment that it is possible to notice an improvement in the indicators that measure student performance. It is known that there are several factors that can influence a student's academic performance, whether family background, school structure, teacher training and the individual's own intrinsic characteristics, including effort. However, we must mention the great relevance of the factor close to parents at school as a fundamental element for greater family involvement in their children's education and the impact that this behavior generate son children's performance. With this in mind, the municipality of Salvador signed a project called Education Agent in partnership with a third sector entity to provide students in the municipal children's network with greater integration of their parents with the school environment with the aim that this involvement would positively affect their performance. Students and which was perceived through the improvement of the IDEB indicator. In this sense, this work aimed to find a relationship between the participation of parents in activities promoted by the school and the academic performance of their children in the educational range of elementary level I, evaluating the impact of such participation with the econometric tools appropriate to there search.