<p>“The same report concluded students with higher levels of parental involvement had significantly lower grades.”</p>
<p>Quoted from the comments section (I have not verified independently):</p>
<p>Look up the National Survey of Student Engagement quoted in the article. This is what is says on p. 25: “Do interventions by family members blunt student engagement, learning and development during college? NSSE data suggest this may not be the case. Students with helicopter parents (those in frequent contact and frequently intervening on their students behalf) reported:
Higher levels of engagement and more frequent use of deep
learning activities.
Greater gains on a host of desired college outcomes, and greater
satisfaction with the college experience.
Although students with involved parents reported higher levels of
engagement, deep learning and greater educational gains, they had
significantly lower grades. Perhaps the reason some parents intervened
was to support a student who was having academic difficulties thus
the correlation with lower grades. Unfortunately, we cannot determine
the extent parental interventions were related to academic or other
matters. It may also be that support from their highly involved parents
encourages their lower performing student to engage in educationally
purposeful activities.”</p>