American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 6, 1999 A Longitudinal Assessment of Teacher Perceptions of Parent Involvement in Children's Education and School Performance Charles V. Izzo and Roger P. Weissberg University of Illinois at Chicago Wesley J. Kasprow Yale Child Study Center Michael Fendrich University of Illinois at Chicago This study examines the ways in which parental involvement in children's education changes over time and how it relates to children's social and academic functioning in school. Teachers provided information on parent involvement and school performance for 1,205 urban, kindergarten through third-grade children for 3 consecutive years. They rated the following four dimensions of parent involvement: frequency of parent-teacher contact, qual- ity of the parent-teacher interactions, participation in educational activities at home, and participation in school activites. As predicted, the frequency of parent-teacher contacts, quality of parent-teacher interactions, and parent participation at school declined from Years 1 to 3. Every parent involvement variable correlated moderately with school performance and parent involve- ment in Years 1 and 2, and accounted for a small, but significant amount of 'This project was supported, in part, by the National Institute of Mental Health Prevention Research Branch and Office on AIDS Research Training Grant T32MH19933 to Roger Weissberg, by the University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Urban Education, Research, and Development, and by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement of the U.S. Department of Education through a grant to the Mid-Atlantic Laboratory for Student Success at the Temple University Center for Research in Human Development and Education. 'Correspondence concerning this document should be addressed to Charles V. Izzo, Depart- ment of Psychology (M/C 285), University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 West Harrison Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60607-7137. 817 0091-0562/99/1200-0817$:6.00/0 © 1999 Plenum Publishing Corporation