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The Perception of School Principals in Kosovo regarding the Parental Involvement in the School Governance5. Information on school policies and regulations sent to parents6. School newsletter sent to parents7. Teachers or professional support personnel make home visits8. Surveys are carried out to find out the opinions/attitudes of parents9. School open-door daysAll these variables are assessed on a 4-point scale. The scale ranges from 1 “atleast once a month “to 4 “not at all’.The Correlational analysis and standard regression analysis were used to examinethe relationship between parental involvement in decision-making as dependentvariable and parent-school communication practices as independent variables.ResultsThis section aims to provide an overview of the approach used in this study toanalyze data indicating the level of parental involvement in school governanceand the role of parent - school communication in parental involvement. Linearregression is used to specify the nature of the relation between a set of independentvariables reflecting parent-school communication and dependent variable –parental involvement in decision-making.Table 2. Bivariate correlations of variables assessing parent-school communicationand overall parental involvementMean_Dec 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9Overall decision-makinginvolvement- .005 .155 * .267 ** .137 * .259 ** .245 ** .234 ** .370 ** .163 *1. regular meetings schooldirectors-parents- .079 .205 ** .153 * .156 * .148 * .167 * .155 * .140 *2. written evaluations ofpupils to parents- .311 ** .187 ** .323 ** .261 ** .278 ** .217 ** .193 **3. information oncurriculum- .274 ** .331 ** .365 ** .316 ** .253 ** .184 **4. information on schoolevents- .538 ** .173 ** .191 ** .112 .151 *5. info on school policies - .229 ** .220 ** .247 ** .250 **6. school newsletter - .368 ** .419 ** .0357. home visits - .349 ** .242 **8. parent surveys - .297 **9. school open door days -*. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).The results presented in the table above, indicatea number of modestpositiverelationships between dependent variable and independent variables. The79Volume 1 - Number 1 - 2013