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    Parenting styles and students’ academic achievements in selected public secondary schools in Bukooma Subcounty in Luuka District, Uganda.
    (Kampala International University ,College of Education, 2017-04) Kizito, Phillip
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of parental styles on students’ academic achievement in public secondary schools in Luuka District, Eastern Uganda. The objectives that guided the study were; to investigate the relationship between parents’ participation in school meetings and students’ academic achievement , to assess how parents’ payment of facilitation fee influences students’ academic achievement, to examine the influence of parents ‘provision of scholastic materials on students’ academic achievement in secondary schools in Luuka District. The study was designed as cross sectional survey based on both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The population sample was around four hundred sixty three respondents (Head teachers, deputy head teachers, Board of Governors, teachers, students and Ministry of Education Officials), The sampling techniques used were simple random sampling. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics, The findings of the study were; parents did not attend meetings effectively and this affected the students’ achievement, students’ facilitation fee was not paid on time hence affecting the students’ achievement and parents did not equip the students with relevant or enough teaching and learning materials. In conclusions there was minimal parental support towards the students’ academic achievement in the areas of attending school meetings, paying facilitation fee and provision of learning and teaching materials. The recommendations of the study was; that there should be strict measures from the government and Board of governors on to parents who seem not support their children, design boosting and inter-generational educative programs that help parents to participate in school like having a day parents too, sit in class with students.
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    Parenting Styles and students’ academic achievements in selected public secondary schools in Bukooma Subcounty In Luuka District, Uganda.
    (Kampala International University ,College of Education, 2017-04) Kizito, Phillip
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of parental styles on students’ academic achievement in public secondary schools in Luuka District, Eastern Uganda. The objectives that guided the study were; to investigate the relationship between parents’ participation in school meetings and students’ academic achievement, to assess how parents’ payment of facilitation fee influences students’ academic achievement, to examine the influence of parents ‘provision of scholastic materials on students’ academic achievement in secondary schools in Luuka District. The study was designed as cross-sectional survey based on both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The population sample was around four hundred sixty-three respondents (Head teachers, deputy head teachers, Board of Governors, teachers, students and Ministry of Education Officials), The sampling techniques used were simple random sampling. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics, The findings of the study were; parents did not attend meetings effectively and this affected the students’ achievement, students’ facilitation fee was not paid on time hence affecting the students’ achievement and parents did not equip the students with relevant or enough teaching and learning materials. In conclusions there was minimal parental support towards the students’ academic achievement in the areas of attending school meetings, paying facilitation fee and provision of learning and teaching materials. The recommendations of the study were; that there should be strict measures from the government and Board of governors on to parents who seem not support their children, design boosting and intergenerational educative programs that help parents to participate in school like having a day parents too, sit in class with students.