Practices and Challenges of Parental Involvement to Enhance in Students' Learning Government Secondary Schools of Nifas Silk Lafto Sub-City
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2023-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study was to assess practices and challenges of parental involvement to enhance in students’ learning in Government secondary schools of Nifas Silk Lafto Sub-city. Descriptive survey design was employed to carry out the study to describe the present status of the problem under study. The necessary data for the study were collected from 305 students, 60 teachers, 15 parents, 1 Sub-city PTSA head and 3 principals selected through stratified simple random sampling, purposive sampling, and availability sampling respectively. The instruments employed to collect data from respondents were questionnaire, interview and document analysis. The quantitative data gathered from respondents were analyzed using percentage; mean, one-way ANOVA and the qualitative data were analyzed through narration. The results of the study revealed that the perceptions of parent’s involvement in their children’s education and low level of support affected students’ academic achievement. In addition, lack of training, time and interest from the side of parents; and socio-economic status as well as socio-cultural factors related to parents are responsible for low level of parental involvement in students learning in secondary schools of Nifas Silk Lafto Sub-City. In conclusion, it is hoped that providing the necessary basis for policy makers, planners, teachers and school administrators to realize the extent of the problem and design feasible and effective community-based intervention measures for reducing the problem under consideration. Thus, it is recommended that the secondary schools have to involve parents, students, teachers and community members to enhance the academic achievement of students as well as school performance.