The Role of Parental Involvement on Students Academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Tanga City, A Case of Tanga District.

Julius, Dora (2023) The Role of Parental Involvement on Students Academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Tanga City, A Case of Tanga District. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study was about The Role of Parental Involvement on Students Academic Performance in Secondary Schools. The study was carried out in Tanga city. The researcher used a general objective examining the role of parental involvement on students’ academic performance in secondary schools in Tanga city, which was broken into two specific objectives namely, to examine Parental involvement in the implementation of school programs based on six types of involvement, to examine challenges facing parents in involvement in implementation of school program and to find out suggestions for improving the level of parental involvement for better performance. A case study design was adopted whereas a sample of eighty-eight (88) respondents was selected through stratified random sampling and purposive sampling. Questionnaires, interview and documentary review were employed for literature review and data collection. Quantitative data were analyses through the use of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 16th version computer software tool, and then data were presented in tables, frequency and percentage, while qualitative data were analyzed through content analysis. The findings of the study reveal that, the respondents seem to disagree towards existence of Parental inclusion of Parental involvement in the implementation of school programs based on six types of involvement, namely in terms of parenting skills, communication, voluntary aid, learning at home, decision-making and cooperation with the community. The researcher concluded that, Parents involvement in the implementation of school programs based on six types of involvement in provision of education in secondary schools in Tanga City needs not only the efforts of the school management but also the leaders at community levels and the general public. Key words: Role, Parenting, Students, Performance, Engagement, School

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