Parental Involvement in Children’s Education in Selected Government and Private Preschools in Addis Ababa City Administration
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2021-08
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It is believed that parental involvement in preschool children's education is profoundly
important. The objective of the study, therefore, was to assess parental involvement in selected
private and government preschools in Addis Ababa city administration. A mixed research design
has been applied in the current research supported by the concurrent triangulation method. Data
were collected from 200 parents drawn using a multistage random sampling method from four
preschools, using a 25 items which is Parental Involvement Scale (PIS) with four sub-scales. In
addition, an interview has been used to gather qualitative data from 13 teachers. Descriptive
(mean, standard deviation, frequency) and inferential statistics (correlation, t-test, one-way
ANOVA, and post hoc pair-wise comparison) have been used to analyze the collected data. The
result indicated that parents were highly involved in their preschool children’s education.
Statistically a significant difference has been found between parents in government and private
preschool in the parent-child communication in favor of parents in private preschools. However,
statistically significant differences were not found in the other areas of parent involvement
scales. Parent gender has been found to influence their involvement, and also mothers have been
found to involve more than fathers. Parents' age, parents’ educational status has been found to
influence their involvement. However, in this study parents’ income does not influence parent
involvement. As a result, because parent involvement is one of the most important factors in a
children's education, all stakeholders must collaborate to work effectively to promote parents'
involvement in their children's education.
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Parent; Parental Involvement; Child Education