Parental involvement and public primary schools’ improvement in Nandi district, Kenya.
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2013-05
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Kampala international University college of Education open and distance learning
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The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship between parental involvement and public primary school improvement in Nandi district, Kenya. The problem in this study was parents’ involvement in school activities which needed to be considered for improvement of school standards in terms of academic performance, discipline, extra —
curricular activities and modern learning and teaching resources. The objectives of the study were; to establish the extent of parental involvement, to establish the level of public primary school’s improvement; as well as to establish the relationship between parental involvement and public primary school’s improvement in Nandi district.
Methodology; this study was guided by descriptive correlational designs with qualitative and quantitative approaches. Population used in this study was 300 respondents from standard eight classes in nine public primary schools in Nandi district, Kenya. The sample size was 50 done at school level and student level by purposive sampling method. This study used questionnaire instrument to collect data from the respondents. Data analysis; frequency and percentage distribution were used to determine profile of the respondents. Data gathered were corrected and encoded in computer and statistically treated using the statistical package for social sciences (spss). The mean were used to measure the extent of parental involvement and the primary schools in Nandi district. Pearson’s product moment correlation was used to establish the relationship between the parental involvement and the level of school improvement in Nandi district. Findings indicated that the independent variables (parental involvement) influences highly the depend variables (school improvement) as shown by the sig-value of 0.001. Conclusion; parents are the major aspects of improvement of any school. They provide the basic needs to their children and have good relation to them and the teachers. Recommendation; the government should organize seminars and workshops to sensitize parents on the importance of their concern and participation in school activities and their children academic performance. School authorities should have regular meetings with
parents to discuss on school matters and arising issues of discipline and technology. The government should increase the funds given to schools on yearly basis in school.Teachers need to attend to parents and assist them whenever they visit school. Teachers should build good relationship with pupils and parents.
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A thesis presented to the college of higher Degree and Research Kampala International University Kampala Uganda in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Of Master of Educational’ Management
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Parental Involvement, public primary schools’ improvement, Nandi district