The Parental Involvement in Academic Performance in C Secondary Schools at Ukerewe District Council.

Lema, Stephano G. (2022) The Parental Involvement in Academic Performance in C Secondary Schools at Ukerewe District Council. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study focused on the parental school involvement in children education in Ukerewe district. Three objectives were: to investigate the status of parental in school involvement in education of their children in Ukerewe District Council, to analyze challenges parents experience in school involvement of their children education, and to establish strategies to improve parental school involvement in selected secondary schools in Ukerewe District Council. The study used mixed methods design where questionnaire and interviews were used. The results showed that parents in Ukerewe had taken the issues of parental school involvement being teachers' and students' obligation. Evidences showed parents were not communicating to teachers, parents did not checking students’ assignments, and follow children school report. The only thing parents did was to contribute to fundraising. The status showed parents had low involvement in education. Thus was not expected to make and enhance school children academic performance in any way in Ukerewe secondary schools. Poor students readiness to learn, family conflict arising family, failure to set time to supervise students learning activities and general students discipline at home, and busy schedule of parents all these added to low parental involvement in school activities. The strategies to improve the situation were parents to attend school parents meeting, school enhancing home visits programme and school to do partnership with community on school matters. The Recommendations to improve the situation are attached. Keywords: Parental Involvement, Academic Performance, Ukerewe

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