Practices and Challengs for Parental Involvement to Enhance Students’ Academic Achievement of Government Secondary Schools of Yeka Sub City
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2025-07-01
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Addis Ababa University
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This study was designed to assess the practices and difficulties of parental involvement in raising children's academic performance in Yeka Sub-city's government secondary schools. The study used a descriptive survey design to describe the present situation of the issue under investigation. The necessary data for the study were collected from 151 students, 142 teachers, 19 PTA members and 12 school principals selected through simple random sampling and purposive sampling. Document review, focus groups, and questionnaires were the tools used to get information from respondents.
Percentage, mean, standard deviation, and one-way ANOVA were used to examine the quantitative data collected from the respondents, while narrative was used to analyze the qualitative data. The results of the study revealed that the perception of respondents on parent’s involvement in their children’s academic achievement were at moderate level in general and at low level in specific area and affected students’ academic achievement. The significance difference among respondent groups was observed with respect to the variables. Unobservable parental involvement in their child's academic performance is caused by a poor communication between the school and the parents.
In addition, lack of training, time and interest from the side of parents; educational background and socio-economic status factors related to parents are responsible for low level of parental involvement in students’ academic activities in secondary schools of Yeka Sub-City. In conclusion, it is expected that by giving policymakers, planners, teachers, and educational leaders the basis that is required to understand the scope of the issue and create workable and successful community-based intervention strategies, the problem at hand would be addressed. Thus, it is recommended that the secondary schools have to create clear roles and awareness to involve parents, students, teachers and community members for enhancing the academic achievement of students as well as school performance
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Secondary school, participation, academic performance, education quality