Coopeartion between school and primary school parents

The main purpose of the study is to investigate the state of parents whose children are the primary school students by regarding the school-family cooperation.The population of the research are composed of parents whose children have been enrolled in 13 primary public schools in Nazilli, the district of Aydın Province in the 2019-2020 Academic Year while the sample is made up of 266 parents chosen by proportional cluster method. "School and Family Cooperation in Primary Education Scale", developed by the researcher was used throughout the data collection of the research. The Scale was evaluated in six sub-dimensions. ('Participation in School Management', 'Communication with Teacher', Communication with Management', Communication with Other Parents', 'Participation in School Activities', Financing'.) SPSS 23 (Statistical Package Program for Social Sciences) program was used to analyze the data. Frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, t-test, One Way Anova test, Tukey, LSD Multiple Comparison Tests wer used so as to analyze the data. Alpha value is accepted as α=. 05 through all of the significance tests. As a result of the research, according to parents' opinions, it was concluded that the level of Communication with Teacher", which is one of the sub-dimensions of 'School and Family Cooperation in Primary Education Scale' was perceived at a higher level when it is to be compared to other sub-dimensions, and the level of 'Participation in School Activities' was perceived at a lower level compared to other sub-dimensions. To the research result, there was no significant difference between the levels of age and gender of parents' school-family cooperation. However, it revealed a significant difference according to income statues, education level and the number of children that parents have. It can be concluded that these different variables are in line with the socio-economic levels of families. It is crucial to identify families who are inadequate to contribute to school in socio-economic and other fields and make all stakeholders in the school have to fulfill their duties and responsibilities. Thus It is suggested that they will be effective in increasing school-family cooperation.