RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN

PARENTS’ PERCEPTION
AND DEGREES
Authors: Dao Thi Thuy Duong
Nguyen Viet Trung
 CONTENT
1 INTRODUCTION

2 METHODS

3 RESULTS

4 CONCLUSION – FURTHER RESEARCH

I. INTRODUCTION
 1. Preview
I. INTRODUCTION
 2. Objectives

- Research roles and influences of parents in promoting children’ s motivations,

academic achievements, belief, behaviors, success and perceptions of degrees.

- Research relationship between opinions, methods, perceptions of degrees

among Vietnamese parents and American parents.
I. INTRODUCTION
 3. Targets

Relationship between parents’ perceptions and degrees.

I. INTRODUCTION
 4. Theories

- Accurate understandings and perceptions of degree will change

behavior in a positive way, help parents find proper views and
efficiency solutions to promote students’ intrinsic motivations, so that
they can develop social skills, self-study and integrating skills.

- If parents orientate mastery goals for students, they are more likely to
succeed in life.
I. INTRODUCTION
 5. Questions
- What is success? Is there a relationship between success and degrees?
Is parents’ role essential to children’s success?
- What are degrees? How many types of degrees are there? Do degrees
decide success?
- How are people’s awarenesses and parents’ expectations related to
degrees’ impact and social behaviors nowadays?
- What are the features of the relationship between parents’ aims and
students’ motivations and self-efficacy? What is the relationship
between parents’ objectives and students’ intrinsic motivations,
self-confidence and GPAs?
- Why is there a relationship between parents’ perceptions and
children’s degrees?
II. METHOD

 Survey on 498 parents, students in 4 High Schools and Colleges.

 Compare to Americas’ criteria to find:

 Differences in perceptions between American parents and Vietnamese parents.

 Parents’ influences to children’s opinion and developments.

II. RESULTS
 A. PARENTS
 II. RESULTS
 A. PARENTS
 1. PARENTS’ FUTURE ORIENTATION
Percentage Percentage
100 100

90 90

80 80
70 70
60 60
50 50
40 40
30 30
20 20
10 10
0 0

Above College degree Below College degree Intellectual Labor Manual Labor

Parents’ perceptions of degree Job-choosing for children

depend on career depend on parents’ expectations
 II. RESULTS
 A. PARENTS
 1. PARENTS’ OPINION
Percentage Percentage
100 100

90 90

80 80

70 70

60 60

50 50

40 40

30 30

20 20

10 10

0 0
Tran Phu Major Ngo Quyen Thang Long Hai Phong Tran Phu Ngo Quyen Thang Long Hai Phong
High School High School High School Industrial Major High High School High School Industrial
Career College School Career College

Direct Concern Indirect Concern None Below College degree Above College degree

Parents’ concern ratio of children’s Parents’ degree-choosing depend on

studying in different schools children’s school
II. RESULTS
 B. STUDENTS
II. RESULTS
 A. PARENTS
 1. ACADEMIC OUTCOMES AND JOB ORIENTATION
Percentage
100

90

80 14
70
16
60

50
54
40 16
30

20

10

0
Tran Phu Ngo Quyen Thang Long Hai Phong
Major High High School High School Industrial
School Career College Self-abillity Parents Family economy Others

Excellent Good Average Poor

Students’ academic outcomes ratio Students’ job orientation

in different schools
 II. RESULTS
 A. PARENTS
 1. CHILDREN’S DESIRES
Percentage Percentage
100
100
90
90
80
80
70
70
60
60
50
50
40
40
30
30
20
20
10
10
0
0
Tran Phu Ngo Quyen Thang Hai Phong
Major High High Long High Industrial
School School School Career
College
College degree Vocational Colllege degree Above College degree Below College degree

Students’ degree-orientating Relationship between college degree-choosing

in different schools and jobs depend on children’s desire
II. RESULTS
 C. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTS’ AWARENESS AND DEGREES
II. RESULTS
 C. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTS’ AWARENESS AND DEGREES
 SELF-STUDYING AND GPA
Point Point
10 10

9 9

8 8

7 7

6
6
5
5
4
4
3
3
2
2
1

1 0
Mastery Performance Mastery Goals Performance
Goals Goals Goals

Students’ self-studying Students’ GPA

II. RESULTS
 D. COMPARE TO AMERICAN RESEARCH’S CRITERIA
 II. RESULTS
 D. COMPARE TO AMERICAN RESEARCH’S CRITERIA
 1. MOTIVATIONS, GPA AND SELF-EFFICACY
Point Point Point

9 9 9

7 7 7

5 5 5

3 3 3

1 1 1
Viet America Viet America Viet America
Nam Nam Nam
Orientate Mastery Goals Orientate Mastery Goals Orientate Mastery Goals
Orientate performance Goals Orientate Performance Goals Orientate Performance Goals

Relationship between Relationship between Relationship between

Intrinsic motivation and Goals GPA and Goals Self-efficacy and Goals
II. RESULTS
 D. COMPARE TO AMERICAN RESEARCH’S CRITERIA
 2. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTS AND DEGREES
Percentage

100

90

80

70

60

50

40

30

20

10

0
Viet Nam America

Above College degree Below College degree

Relationship between parents and degrees

IV. CONCLUSION AND FURTHER RESEARCH
 1. Conclusion

- Until now, America still has the most developed education in the world.

- Therefore, a nation with a ratio of 80% college-graduated civilians must

have the exact perceptions and high degrees.

- However, America’s unemployment ratio is not as low as we had thought.

- Compare to Viet Nam, surprisingly, most parents decide children’s

degrees and future school.

- Degrees are just an economic satisfaction of parents.

IV. CONCLUSION AND FURTHER RESEARCH
 1. Conclusion

- It is necessary to change parents’ orientation methods by providing

knowledge of job requirements.

- Change people’s perceptions by giving out success symbol without

degrees (additional factors) or failure even though had degrees.
IV. CONCLUSION AND FURTHER RESEARCH
 2. Further research

- Making impact on parents’ modern perceptions by providing

understanding of relationship between individual’s success in society
and degrees.
- Suggest solutions which have impact on students’ perceptions in
order to stimulate active in all aspects of life, including job and
degrees-choosing.